10 Reviews: Best Bird Food to Attract Colorful Birds (Apr 2024)

If you’re looking for a mix of high-quality seeds and grains that are specifically designed to keep chipmunks, squirrels, and other backyard critters away from your feeders, Kaytee Squirrel and Critter Blend will meet your needs. In addition, some birds will enjoy the mix, eat the sunflower seeds and other seeds before the corn.

Squirrels and birds love it.

by Bev

The Kaytee Seed & Mealworm Treat Cake is an excellent way to attract bluebirds and woodpeckers. It’s made of Hulled Sunflower Seed, Oil Sunflower Seed, Safflower Seed, Dried Mealworms, Gelatin, Dextrose, Honey, and Glycerin. This treat cake, on the other hand, is very convenient and does not melt easily in the snow or rain, making it ideal for attracting birds to your backyard.

At least, that's what the birds say. I have a few different feeding stations setup now, and the birds have gone pretty crazy over this cake. Also attracted a large squirrel, so guess it's loved by all my backyard critters. It's taking them a little while to finish this one off (it's a huge seed cake), but when they are done, I'll buy another since they appear to love it.

by kinetic_1

Lyric has another excellent wild bird food choice. This is a bird mix made especially for finches. Canary seed, canola seed, nyjer seed, golden millet seed, and sunflower kernels are all-natural, filler-free components used on this food. The seed is fresh, and the birds will enjoy it.

This mix attracts a ton of little birds to my yard. I always have a handful of finches on my feeders when I use this mix. The seeds are so small they tend to fall through the cracks of the feeder and even the thistle socks, though!

by Pilot0822

Lyric Wild Bird Food is a premium brand made by a family-owned and managed company of bird lovers in small batches. This high-energy nut and fruit combination has no fillers and is composed entirely of natural ingredients. Chickadees, robins, orioles, blue jays, titmice, buntings, cardinals, grosbeaks, towhees, nuthatches, and Cedar Waxwings love this delicious blend.

Lyric fixed the problem with the weird webs and insects that were infesting this bird feed. It is back to my go to feed for the larger birds, especially woodpeckers, jays, and grosbeaks. The squirrels love it, too! ?

by Amanda Goodall

If you want to attract woodpeckers to your feeders, this Pine Tree Farms Suet Cake is probably the best option. It also works well for other suet-loving birds. Render beef suet, chopped peanuts, and peanut butter are the main ingredients (yummy). This is, without a doubt, one of the best suet cakes on the market. It attracts a diverse range of birds and contains no fillers.

I like the ingredients. I can’t deal with worms.
No fillers. The birds found it quickly.

I am buying these again and again. My birds love them!

by Sus

This Lyric Sunflower Kernels is a great no-mess option for attracting as many birds as possible to your yard. The kernels in this birdseed are the heart of the “meat” of black oil sunflower, which is the most popular wild bird food. This food is excellent since it contains the protein and lipids that birds need.

This was a good change for the birds plus then you don't have all the sunflower hulls every where.

by Catmom

It comes in the form of a block of birdseed that you can simply place on your deck or porch. As a result, you won’t need a bird feeder to feed the birds this food. It attracts a variety of species, from jays and finches to grosbeaks and cardinals. However, it is important to note that some of the blocks may include various seed mixes–some may contain a combination of fruits and nuts, while others may contain just nuts and seeds.

It did the trick of the starlings eating all my bird food. The songbirds love it and cardinals, and nuthatches... So I will be reordering this again.

by Julia

Small songbirds, such as the beautiful yellow, black, and white American goldfinch, love tiny black nyjer seed, often known as thistle seed. Since the seed is so tiny, it’s usually served from thistle or sock feeders, which are specially intended to dispense seeds without allowing larger “bully” birds to hog all of the food.

I bought this seed for the finches in my neighborhood. They fight for perches on my feeder. They are devouring the seeds as fast as I can fill it.

by Rosy

Wagner’s Greatest Variety Wild Bird Food is a buffet for finches, chickadees, cardinals, jays, titmice, sparrows, woodpeckers, and juncos alike, with lots of black oil sunflower, striped sunflower seeds, sunflower chips, white millet, red millet, cracked corn, red milo, nyjer, peanut kernels, canary seed, and safflower. It includes some seeds that are less popular or often squandered, but the rest are crowd-pleasers.

Boy, this is going fast! I put out one bag in my feeders and it's gone in about 2-3 days. The birds absolutely love this. That makes me feel good, so of course I'll keep buying it. Glad I purchased a few bags.

by MorkieMama

The Black Oil of Audubon Sunflower seed is made especially for wild birds and comes in a 10-pound bag. It is great to attract Titmice, grosbeaks, cardinals, woodpeckers, nuthatches, chickadees, and finches. Due to the obvious thin shell of these seeds, various kinds of birds may easily carry and open them. That means your birdies will need to put minimal effort to eat these seeds.

I love this stuff for my wild birds. They love it also.
I have a big fatty squirrel who also loves this stuff and will eat all I put out in one sitting.

by A Castle