Bird food-Mariposa Mix (10lbs / 4.5kg)

This simple blend contains the two most attractive ingredients. Non-GMO black oil sunflower and roasted (unsalted) peanut halves. This blend can be used in many different feeders. It is great for platform, fly through, hopper, tube style and even mesh feeders! Available in 10lb, 20lb and 40lb bags (by special order).  

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Bird Food – Mariposa Mix – (20lbs / 9.1kg)

This simple blend contains the two most attractive ingredients. Non-GMO black oil sunflower and roasted (unsalted) peanut halves. This blend can be used in many different feeders. It is great for platform, fly through, hopper, tube style and even mesh feeders! Available in 10lb, 20lb and 40lb bags (by special order).  

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Bird food – Cardinal Blend – (40lbs / 18kg)

Cardinal Blend

Attract Canada’s favourite bird to your backyard with our cardinal blend. This is a simple mix of black oil sunflower and safflower. Cardinals prefer to eat on a platform feeder and ideally near the ground. Place the feeder near cedar hedges or a close escape route witch will help them feel safe. Cardinals tend to […]

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Bird food – Cardinal Blend – (20lbs / 9.1kg)

Cardinal Blend

Attract Canada’s favourite bird to your backyard with our cardinal blend. This is a simple mix of black oil sunflower and safflower. Cardinals prefer to eat on a platform feeder and ideally near the ground. Place the feeder near cedar hedges or a close escape route witch will help them feel safe. Cardinals tend to […]

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Birding Tips

Hummer Tips Attracting Hummingbirds to your garden Providing Water for your birds Discouraging large birds Where Are All My Finches? How to Select Bird Seed Squirrel-Proofing Your Bird Feeder Winter Bird Feeding Hummer FYI By: Droll Yankees Besides nectar, Hummingbirds consume protein in the form of insects which they find inside flowers, on plants and […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 56 – The BAD seed

Woodland Seed

? CHEX TV airdate: Friday, Feb. 6th, 2015 Click link to watch this episode. I knew our bird food was good stuff. ?But it wasn’t until I picked some other “bird food” up at a box store that I realized HOW good! On this episode of the Garden Gate I will show you how to […]

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Discouraging Large Birds

Caged Feeder

Need help managing larger birds in your yard? There are lots of tricks at your disposal to discourage larger birds from invading your feeders! Choosing the right feeder is the best place to start. Globe Feeders ? Baffles ? Diversion Feeders ? Weight sensitive Feeders Who isn’t discouraged when…large birds descend on our bird feeders, […]

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Bird food – Cardinal Blend -10lbs

Cardinal Blend

Attract Canada’s favourite bird to your backyard with our cardinal blend. This is a simple mix of black oil sunflower and safflower. Cardinals prefer to eat on a platform feeder and ideally near the ground. Place the feeder near cedar hedges or a close escape route witch will help them feel safe. Cardinals tend to […]

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Garden Tips: Begone, Vile Interlopers! (on Grackles & Starlings)

Common Grackles and European Starlings are unpopular with many, because they raid bird feeders and leave nothing for other species. I’m often asked how to solve this problem. If you adjust the seed you offer and the types of feeders you use, you can successfully exclude these unwanted species and attract the ones you want. […]

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Bird food – NiChip – (20lbs / 9.1kg)

NyChip™ is a blend of premium nyjer seed and fine hulled sunflower. This is a non-GMO blend. Works well in finch feeders and thistle socks. Finches of all kinds will flock to bird feeders filled with fresh NyChip seed.  Often mistakenly called “thistle” seed, Nyjer seed is from Eastern Africa and will NOT germinate into […]

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