Lyric Golden Safflower Seed - Attracts Cardinals, Chickadees, Woodpeckers & More - 12 lb Bag

Great product & well priced. I get cardinals, red headed finches, nuthatches & of course sparrows. Once in awhile starlings show up but nowhere’s near as much with other seed (like sunflower mix only). No grackles either! My feeders are also small so the starlings have a hard time hanging on. Also get a lot of doves but have always had them & they eat off the ground. I do mix the safflower sometimes with hulled sunflower & amaranth to save on cost. You absolutely can’t go wrong with this product!!!

Bought to add to my fruit and nut blend. I also have just the Safflower seed in the window feeder to discourage squirrels from that feeder. The birds really like it. Although the hull is not as thick as white Safflower you still have hull waste to contend with. So far none of the dropped seeds are germinating.If it makes my birds happy I’m happy.

The blackbirds such as Red Wings & Grackles devour everything in sight when I fill the feeders (Platform, Tube), they don't discriminate between nuts, seeds, dried black soldier fly larvae or dried mealworms. But they don't seem to care for the safflower which allows the smaller birds such as the house finches to feed on the tube feeder without being bullied, so it lasts much longer. The Blue Jays love nuts, especially peanuts and if the squirrels and blackbirds don't get to them first, the Blue Jays will get to eat. Robins love the dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae and dried Cranberries. I get the BSF instead of mealworms because BSF is high in calcium whereas the mealworms have very little if any calcium. Every and I mean every other bird seems to love the black oil sunflower seeds and cracked corn and I have been mixing in that bird seed that has been soaked in hot pepper oils to keep the squirrels away. Birds don't taste or sense hot spicy stuff so they eat it up, but mammals do, so if you have a lot of coons and squirrels switch to that seed to deter them. Millet is another seed that a lot of the birds love, I usually spread this on the ground for the pigeons and doves since it's so small it will usually sift right through the platform bottoms.

Chicadees, Nuthatches, Woodpeckers, Cardinals, Titmouse, Finches. love tis4 stars because it's expensive

I bought this because the cow birds and grackles were being bullies and not allowing the beautiful songbirds and doves near my birdfeeders. I had been filling my feeders with the Lyric supreme bird food, and all of the birds liked it, however, I didn’t like seeing the songbirds and doves being intimidated by the bully birds, so thought I would try something new. I did research to find out what cowbirds did not like, and I read they do not like golden safflower seeds. I also read several reviews saying the same thing, so gave it a try. The cowbirds and grackles still come around, but only for a few seconds and then they leave, without eating. The songbirds and doves dominate my feeders now! Another plus is, I am saving money! I use three feeders, and was filling them every other day. Now I am refilling them every ten to twelve days!!

I had been using wild bird seed and had all sort of birds feeding then the black birds show up. They bullied everybody else so I turned to this. Within days, I could see the black birds come in and quickly leave. By day 2 or 3 they figured out they did NOT like this food and they were gone. But then ~ 3 weeks went by and none of the cardinals or the bluebirds came back. Nothing. So... I mixed (roughly 75% this and 25% of the wild bird seed) the two, and my birds are back but NOT the black birds! It's been about 10 days now. It took a few days for the other birds to revisit and they are regulars now. What I do have, is those dang screechy black birds nesting in my cabbage palms so I think they straight wild bird seed brought them here and they made a home. But it's OK, I'm just glad to have the variety of birds feeding. I think 75% this and 25% other works pretty great. Thank you!

I’m not sure what’s going on but as soon as my Dad n I put this seed out in 3 separate feeders, he lost every single bird. There isn’t 1 that comes to his feeders. I bought this for him so it would detour blackbirds not every bird lol. Dad says he is just going to throw it away, n I bought him 2 of these bigger sized bags. Am I doing something wrong that this is happening? What a bummer.

Thought we'd try this to attract a different kind of bird than those already coming to our feeders with more typical bird seed. This is really attracting a lot of red finches. So we are happy with it.

I usually buy another brand and kind of safflower seed. Birds don't seem to have noticed any difference and are still happy. I get a lot of cardinals and purple finches mostly. Don't attract squirrels or any of the "bully birds".