Small Sunflower Seeds 1kg

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Small Sunflower Seeds 1kg

Many birds eat sunflower seeds, making them an excellent choice for gardens or bird feeders. They will attract and help sustain a wide range of bird species in your space.

Some birds that eat sunflower seeds include:

• Blackbirds
• Chickadees
• Finches
• Gray catbirds
• Grosbeaks
• Jays
• Northern cardinals
• Nuthatches
• Pine siskins

Many other birds will certainly eat these seeds, so this is just a partial list.

Black oil sunflower seeds are great for many songbirds, while larger, striped sunflower seeds are great for larger birds with strong beaks. Hulled sunflowers are also suitable for smaller birds or those with softer beaks because they are easier for them to eat.

How To Provide Sunflower Seeds for Birds in Your Garden

There are two main approaches to adopt if you want to provide sunflower seeds for the birds in your garden.

The first way is to grow sunflowers in your space. Sunflowers can be very useful in our gardens in various ways for us, other wildlife, and birds.

Annual sunflowers grow well in a sunny location with fertile, moist, yet reasonably free-draining soil. There are several different sunflowers, from giant sunflowers to much smaller dwarf sunflowers. Many grow just a single flowering head on each plant, while there are also multiple-flowered cultivars to consider.

Sunflowers look good in ornamental beds and borders, but they can also be a great addition to vegetable beds in a kitchen garden, where they make great companion plants.

If you leave sunflowers to mature, seeds should naturally form toward the end of the growing season. If you leave these in place, seed-eating birds will be able to help themselves.

The second option, whether or not you grow sunflowers yourself, is to purchase sunflower seeds to feed to birds by placing them on a bird table, in a platform feeder, or in a bird feeder like a cage, basket, or tube feeder in your backyard.

Which Sunflower Seeds To Use

How and which kinds of sunflower seeds you serve will determine the bird species you will attract to your garden.

Two main types of sunflower seeds are used to feed the birds. There are black sunflower seeds and striped sunflower seeds. Both come from the annual sunflower Helianthus annuus.

The difference is mainly in appearance, and many birds like both. But carefully choosing can allow you to make sure that you provide a healthy food source for different types of birds in your garden.

Black oil sunflower seeds are great for many songbirds, while larger, striped seeds are great for larger birds with stronger bills.

It is best to leave out a variety of seeds and seeds in different forms to cater to as wide a range of garden birds as possible.

Can Birds Eat Raw Sunflower Seeds Whole?

Even larger seed-eating birds don’t eat whole sunflower seeds since they want to extract the inner kernel. They do not eat the hard outer coating or seed shell. But you can provide the raw seeds whole since, as mentioned, many birds can break through this outer coating without trouble.

Should You Hull the Seeds?

Hulled sunflowers are suitable for smaller birds because they are easier to eat. Supplying hulled sunflower seeds will allow you to attract smaller seed-eating birds that cannot easily break through the seeds’ outer shell or outer coating.

As mentioned above, many birds can break through unshelled sunflower seeds to get to the goodness within. But providing hulled seeds will allow you to cater to a broader range of birds since they won’t have to break through the coating to get to sunflower seed hearts.

You can shell these yourself or buy pre-shelled sunflower seeds to feed.

Should Sunflower Seeds Be Soaked or Crushed?

Sunflower seeds do not usually have to be soaked or crushed. But doing so may make this food source available for a wider range of smaller, less strong-billed birds.