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(More customer reviews)We live in the Mid-Atlantic and I guess we're bird-people because even our squirrels are glossy and fat, and we've got birds that come back year after year, bringing their babies.
I usually buy just straight Thistle seed for the Siskins and Gold Finches. This year I'm trying two sock feeders along with our usual 4-perch 'house' feeder because there has been such a traffic jam. And as an experiment, I bought the Scott's "Wild Finch & Small Songbird Blend". It was a whim, but I was interested in the 2X claim, as well as whether our birds would like the red millet.
Well, the short of it is that they don't particularly care for it. Certainly we haven't seen any increase in Finch traffic, in fact it's died off a bit... but I'm not going to lay the blame for that at Scott's feet. With birds you just never know. But in the socks all of the thistle is gone and what remains is red.
THE SKINNY:::
I was concerned that the red millet might not fit through the slim feeder-slots on our house-style thistle feeder, but apparently it does.
The Pine Siskins seem to like the millet better than the Gold Finches.
As for the Red Millet, I did a bit of research and found out that it is frequently used as 'filler' and doesn't have a magic effect as one might conclude from the claims on the package.
I'm not planning on buying more except for the sock-feeders. It is just so convenient to have the spout on the Scott bag that I think it's worth the price.
Note: if you haven't been feeding birds for a long time, you might not know that local populations can have their own preferences. So it makes sense to experiment and try a bag of this-or-that to see what your local birds prefer.
Pam T~
mom/blogger/birder
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Scotts Songbird Selections Wild Finch and Small Songbird Seed BlendDeveloped by ornithologists using only high-quality ingredients, this Songbird Selections Wild Finch and Small Songbird seed blend from Scotts is designed specifically to attract Goldfinches--one of the most popular birds in the U.S. It's been field-tested and proven to attract up to 2 times more finches plus other small songbirds, and it attracts goldfinches better than thistle alone.*
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