The type of food placed in your feeders has a tremendous impact on the type of birds you attract.
Many birds relish the larger, harder seeds such as oil and striped sunflower seeds .
If you had to choose just one seed to feed in fact, it would be the oil sunflower because of the variety of birds this seed will attract. Some of these birds include cardinals, blue jays, grosbeaks, chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers and some finches. This food should be provided either in a hanging feeder, platform feeder, or fly though feeder. These seeds can be bought as a single seed mixture or combined with other seeds. Premium song bird foods should contain a high percentage of oil sunflower.