Blue Seal Wild Bird Feeds brochure
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Blue Seal Wild Bird Feeds brochure
R 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 • Coarse Cracked Corn • Fine Cracked Corn • Nyjer Seed • Peanut Hearts • Peanuts-In-The-Shell • Striped Sunflower • Sunflower Chips • White Millet • 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 NO FEEDERS NO FEEDERS FEEDERS BETTER BODY CONDITION FEEDERS NO FEEDERS FEEDERS 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. NO FEEDERS FEEDERS NO FEEDERS FEEDERS Information compiled by a 2011-13 study at Millikin University.