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Bird feeder for cardinals?
Please help. I put up a bird feeder, hoping to attract cardinals.
At first, I used black sunflower seeds. I got a few cardinals. But I also got tons of sparrows and doves. Swarms of sparrows in particular took over the feeder.
So I emptied the feeder and waited a week. Then I used safflower seeds instead. Same results.
Then I tried the "magic halo", which is supposed to keep sparrows away. It didn't work at all.
So can anybody recommend a feeder that will attract cardinals but not sparrows? Thanks!
2 Answers
- ?Lv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
You'd have to invent one hun. Now if you had a treadle-based feeder that would issue a shock to any bird outside of the weight range of a cardinal, you might be able to issue feed to mostly cardinals.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
I even have a number of feeders located around the backyard. the two the bluejays and the cardinals look to wish the floor feeder as against the putting feeder. They go loopy over black sunflower seeds (no longer the striped ones), and peanuts. The bluejays will take the peanuts in or out of the shells, however the cardinals will in basic terms take them in the event that they're out of the shells. interior the spring and early summer time, whilst they're feeding nestlings and fledglings, the two the cardinals and the blue jays will take grapes. I even have on no account seen them on our log-form suet feeders, yet I do regularly see the blue jays below those feeders, amassing up something the different birds have dropped. And basically the different day, between the blue jays shocked me by making use of going to the jelly feeder we've for the orioles, and flying off with a beakful of grape jelly!