Bird Food Preference

What does everyone like?  Birds have definite food preferences ... knowing the right type of food to offer will increase your chances of attracting the birds you want. 

View a list of berry plants for birds here.

Bluebirds

Meal worms, berries, chopped fruits, soaked raisins, currants.

Cardinals

Sunflower seeds, safflower.

Catbirds

Halved apple, chopped fruits, suet, soaked raisins, currants.

Chickadee

Peanut kernels, sunflower seeds, safflower, suet, peanut butter

Creepers

Suet, peanut butter, peanut kernels, fruit.

Finches

Thistle (nyger), sunflower hearts, black oil sunflower seeds, safflower, millet, peanut kernels.

Grosbeaks

Sunflower seeds, safflower.

Indigo Buntings

Sunflower seeds, millet, nyger.

Jays

Peanuts, sunflower seed, suet, cracked corn, milo.

Juncos

Millet, sunflower seed, cracked corn, peanuts.

Mockingbirds

Halved apple, chopped fruits, suet, soaked raisins, currants.

Nuthatches

Suet, sunflower seeds, peanut kernels, peanut butter.

Orioles

Halved oranges, apples, berries, sugar water solution, grape jelly, suet, soaked raisins, currants.

Sparrows

Millet, hulled sunflower seeds, black oil sunflower seeds, cracked corn.

Tanagers

Suet, fruits, sugar solution, mealworms. 

Thrashers

Halved apple, chopped fruits, suet, millet, soaked raisins, currants.

Titmice

Peanut kernels, sunflower, suet, peanut butter

Towhees

Millet, sunflower, cracked corn, peanuts.

Woodpeckers

Suet, sunflower hearts.

Wrens

Suet, peanut butter, peanut kernels, fruit, millet