Safflower Bird Seed - 50 lb. bag

Safflower bird seed is high in fat, protein and oil content.  Thee natural ingredients of the safflower seed make it a valuable nutritional food source for wild birds. Safflower seed is widely known as the cardinal's favorite food of choice.  Adding Safflower seed to your bird feeder has also been recognized as the solution to many squirrel problems at birdfeeders.

Safflower seeds are found in most of the quality wild birdseed mixes available on the market today. They are rarely found, however, in any of the bottom-end mixes available at mass merchants or grocery stores since they are more expensive than some of the other seeds commonly used in the cheaper blends. Some wild birdseed mixes offer safflower seed as one of the main ingredients in order to attract more cardinals, one of North America's favorite backyard birds, and are named for them.

In addition to cardinals, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, grosbeaks are also attracted to safflower seed, among others. The best advantage of adding Safflower seed to your bird feeder is the fact that grackles and starlings bird species commonly known as feeder hogs are not attracted to it.