Seeds

 

The store was out of our usual birdseed, so I bought a cheaper brand, a generic bag labeled wild bird food.  It has produced mixed results. 

For one thing, we now have blue jays trying to to eat from the feeder. They are almost too big, and watching them try to balance on the feeder dish gets pretty comical.

On the other hand, the new feed has a large percentage of cracked corn - somewhere between 25 and 30% by volume - and a lot of the birds, cardinals in particular, don't seem to like corn.  We've watched the male cardinal we call Fred circling the feeder dish for as much as two minutes at a time just throwing corn onto the ground.