Wildlife: What's in your winter Bird feeder?, 1 by boojum

boojum wrote:
The finches eat the niger. Most of the birds here eat sunflower seeds. We also have a mix with millet. But most of the birds prefer the pure niger or sunflower seeds best. The mourning doves and the juncos eat the seeds that spill on the ground. We have 6 feeders up now. We always take them down in early spring because there are bears in the neighborhood. They used to come here when the former owners lived here, but since we have no garbage outside and go to the dump frequently and take down the feeders, we haven't seen any bears in 5 years and they go to neighbors instead.