Blue Seal Wild Bird Feeds brochure

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Blue Seal Wild Bird Feeds brochure
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Blue Seal
Wild Bird Feeds
A variety of mixes to attract an array
of colorful songbirds.
Kent Nutrition Group, Inc.
Muscatine, IA 52761
866.647.1212
blueseal.com
Enhance your bird-watching
enjoyment with
Blue Seal® quality seeds.
Bird feeding can be a year-round enjoyment,
especially during the warmer months when greater
numbers of birds and species are available.
Blue Seal® can enhance your bird viewing pleasure
through our extensive variety of specially formulated
feeds, designed to attract and nourish birds in your
local area. Only the highest quality seeds, grains,
nuts and fruits are used in Blue Seal mixes.
Choose the feeds that are right for the area you live
in and the birds you want to attract. Enjoy!
Tips for Backyard Birders
Providing food and water year-round
Birds will frequent your feeders more if you
provide a consistent, reliable source of feed. Our
complete line of premium mixes offers a variety of
high-quality seed to attract birds to your backyard.
Setting out a bird bath and providing clean,
fresh water will also attract birds not normally drawn
to feeders.
Both bird feeders and bird baths should be cleaned
periodically and the food supply kept fresh to
provide a healthy feeding environment.
Feeder location
Select a feeder and location appropriate for the
birds you would like to attract. Place feeders
in a quiet place where they are easy to see and
convenient to refill. Ideally, it is best to put them
close to natural shelter, such as trees or shrubs,
which offer resting places for birds between feedings
and a quick escape from predators.
Blue Seal
Premium Mixes
Blue Seal
Premium Mixes
Concerto®
Song Maker®
Concerto is a corn-free,
high-energy mix with extra high
levels of black oil sunflower
seeds, sunflower chips and white
safflower, blended with peanut
hearts and white millet. Concerto
is formulated for Cardinals,
Finches, Grosbeaks and more.
It is an exceptional winter feed.
Song Maker is a nutritious blend
of a wide variety of seeds such
as black oil sunflower, sunflower
chips, peanut hearts, cracked
corn and white millet. Darkeyed Junco, Eastern Towhee,
Gray Catbird, Sparrows and
the Tufted Titmouse are among
those who will favor this mix.
Available in 20and 40-lb. bags
Available in 20and 40-lb. bags
Nature’s Choice
Song Maker
Supreme®
TM
Available in 20and 40-lb. bags
Nature’s Choice is a high-energy,
premium blend with generous
amounts of black oil sunflower
and white safflower seeds, as
well as striped sunflower and
sunflower chips, peanut hearts,
cracked corn and white millet.
Chickadees, Nuthatches and the
Tufted Titmouse, as well as a
variety of Finches and Northern
Cardinals are drawn to this mix.
Sing Along®
Sing Along is a mix of finecracked corn, white millet,
sunflower seeds and peanut
hearts. This is our recommended
mix for many ground-feeding
birds like Dark-eyed Juncos,
Eastern Towhees, Indigo
Buntings and Mourning Doves.
Available in 20and 40-lb. bags
Available in 20and 40-lb. bags
Song Maker Supreme is an
excellent mix of black oil
sunflower and striped sunflower
seeds, combined with sunflower
chips, peanut hearts, cracked
corn and white millet. This mix
will attract woodland dwelling
birds such as Chickadees,
Nuthatches and the
Tufted Titmouse.
Birder’s Secret®
Specialty Mixes
Birder’s Secret®
Specialty Mixes
Birder’s Secret
Cardinal Mix
Available in 6and 16-lb. bags
Available in 8and 20-lb. bags
Cardinals love sunflower and
safflower seed, and Birder’s
Secret Cardinal Mix is the
perfect choice to satisfy their
appetites. Cardinals prefer not
to perch and are easily drawn
to platform-type feeders placed
no more than four feet from
the ground and reasonably close
to shelter.
Birder’s Secret
Wild Finch Mix
Available in 8and 20-lb. bags
Enjoy the beautiful bouquet
of colorful birds like American
Goldfinch, Purple Finch, House
Finch, Redpoll and Pine Siskin
with this premium seed blend.
Birder’s Secret Wild Finch Mix
contains high levels of small
sunflower chips and nyjer seed,
and is a fine-textured blend
designed to be fed in a
finch feeder.
Birder’s Secret
Neat Feast
Birder’s Secret
Woodpecker Mix
Birder’s Secret Neat Feast is
the ideal shell-free mix for
patio, deck or garden feeding
stations and a practical option
for apartment and condominium
dwellers, too. This mix contains
dehulled sunflower seed,
sunflower chips, shelled peanuts,
coarse cracked corn, pistachio
nuts, walnuts, pecans and
pumpkin seed that appeals to a
wide variety of birds.
This high-protein, high-energy
coarse textured hearty blend
contains a generous level of
peanuts, tasty dehulled sunflower
seed, sunflower chips, coarse
cracked corn, pistachio nuts,
walnuts, pecans, pumpkin seed
and cranberries. Birder’s Secret
Woodpecker Mix is perfect for
attracting Hairy Woodpeckers,
Downey Woodpeckers,
Red-bellied Woodpeckers and
Northern Flickers.
Available in 8and 20-lb. bags
Wildlife and Native
Game Birds
Scratch Feed*
Scratch Feed is specially crafted
for native game birds and
pheasants. Wild turkeys, Ruffed
Grouse and Northern Bobwhite
Quail naturally gravitate to this
grain mix of cracked corn, whole
wheat and oats.
Blue Seal Suet and
Quality Seed Mixes*
Available in 25and 50-lb. bags
Wildlife Grains*
Available in
40-lb. bags
Attracting and feeding deer
and other wildlife is a growing
recreational interest. Wildlife
Grains provides a nutritious and
flavorful multi-grain mix enrobed
in molasses. Enhanced with a
natural flavoring, Wildlife Grains
is accepted by more species
and offers less waste with its
no-pellet formula.
*These products not offered in all trade areas.
A variety of insect, berry and seed-eating birds are
drawn to Blue Seal Suet. Woodpeckers, Nuthatches,
Chickadees, Titmice and the Northern Flicker are
common visitors at the suet feeder – especially
during the winter months when birds need an
additional source of energy.
Blue Seal offers suet cakes in a variety of flavors,
designed to be fed in a wire mesh feeder that can
be mounted on or hung from a tree. Suet placement,
environment and geographic location will impact the
variety of birds attracted.
Berry
Cherry
High Energy
Nutty
Orange
Sunflower
*These products not offered in all trade areas.
Blue Seal Ultra-Clean
Black Oil Sunflower Seed
TM
For most songbird species,
high-protein, high-energy black
oil sunflower seeds are the
preferred seeds in their diet.
Blue Seal offers the premium,
high-quality Ultra Clean Black
Oil Sunflower Seed in 20- and
40-lb. bags.
Also Available
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Coarse Cracked Corn
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Fine Cracked Corn
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Nyjer Seed
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Peanut Hearts
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Peanuts-In-The-Shell
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Striped Sunflower
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Sunflower Chips
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White Millet
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White Safflower
Wild Bird
Feed
Attraction
Guide
Concerto
Nature’s
Choice
American Goldfinch
2
2
Chickadee
2
2
Sing Along
Song Maker
2
Dark-eyed Junco
2
2
Eastern Towhee
2
2
Evening Grosbeak
2
2
House Finch
2
2
Indigo Bunting
2
Mourning Dove
2
Northern Cardinal
2
2
2
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Song Maker
Supreme
2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
2
2
Song Sparrow
2
2
2
2
Tufted Titmouse
2
2
2
2
White-breasted Nuthatch
2
2
2
The benefits of feeding birds
go beyond your backyard.
HIGHER BIRD ATTRACTION
Sites with bird feeders attract more birds over time
than those without feeders.
GREATER OVERALL HEALTH
Birds at sites with feeders are in overall greater
health than birds at sites without feeders.
LOWER STRESS LEVELS
STRESS
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BETTER BODY CONDITION
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INCREASED SURVIVAL RATES
HIGHER BREEDER POPULATION
Survival rates were 38% higher in areas where
bird feeders were present.
Sites with bird feeders had a higher percentage of
young birds recruited into the breeding population
than sites without feeders.
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Information compiled by a 2011-13 study at Millikin University.