Pennington Songbird Nut & Fruit Blend, 10-lb. Bag

Your finch blend is amazing. Birds chow down on it while ignoring other brands. Good for birds. Bad for me having to fill it everyday.

Birds seem to love this food, and it is a great value.

Late last year I bought a big bag of Pennington Pride Wild Finch blend to use in a small feeder I keep on a shepherd’s hook at the edge of my garden. It has done very well attracting medium-sized birds like doves and grackles and sparrows, but I hardly see any finches. A couple in the evening, and a Carolina chickadee, but nothing else. I thought maybe it was the location of the feeder, because I had loads of finches last summer when I had it hanging — filled with a different brand of finch seed — from a tree at the edge of the woods. But the squirrels got to it, so I got the shepherd’s hook and, by chance, the Pennington Pride Wild Finch blend.

In late April, things started popping up in the garden, as they tend to do. I noticed a bunch of seedlings that looked a lot like corn; I assumed they were brought by birds from the cornfields a couple hundred yards back from my house. I pulled some, but left a few just to see watch them grow. It’s now the first week of June and it’s clear that this isn’t corn at all, but rather millet, and that they weren’t a welcome gift from the birds but an unwelcome artifact of the bird seed.

Like a wacky conspiracy theory in the head of basement-dwelling crank, it all came together: the Pennington Pride Wild Finch blend is heavy on millet. Now, every red-blooded finch loves millet — and what’s not to love? — but do does every two-bit mourning dove and sun-sheened grackle. And those big fellas eat A LOT. So, at the end of the day, at the beginning of the day I’m feeding a bunch of mourning doves and grackles, and at the middle of the day I’m feeding a few finches and other little songbirds, and at the end of the day — every day — I’m filling my bird feeder with more Pennington Pride Wild Finch mix.

I might solve my problem by buying a different feeder, where the bigger birds can’t get a toehold. But I think I’ll solve it by giving Pennington Pride Wild Finch mix the old shepherd’s hook and going back to a brand with less millet and more thistle and nyjer.

*This is not legal advice. Your mileage may vary. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Tell your doctor if you have HIV or acne or if you like the Talking Heads song “Blind”. If your goldfinches feed for more than four hours, see a doctor.

This is an excellent product and I have since purchased again. There are ample different fruits and nuts and not alot of twigs and dust I have found with some other products.