Wild DelightCardinal Food, 7 lbs

Cardinals love it.

Product was exceptional

Birds swarm to eat it

Birds beg for more & squirrels love it too

I’m new to bird feeding so please let me know if I’m off based here but i purchased this food so that the family of cardinals who have been hanging around my home for a couple of years in Chicagoland could enjoy some food to eat. Specifically they hang out in a bush in front of my house and watch me while i work which has become quite endearing throughout the pandemic. They’ve become my little home office buddies; and i wanted to give them a gift for Christmas. They enjoyed it for about 1-3 days before what i think might be house sparrows totally took over. And now, not only do the cardinals not eat out of the feeder, but they are also now nowhere to be seen around the house or in our yard, which I’m sad about. They used to hang out literally every day on the bushes in the front yard and now they are nowhere to be seen. I feel like i ruined their homestead by trying to feed them. I looked into it a little bit online, and it does not seem like this mix has any of the big no-no ingredients for house sparrows so thats good and is one reason why i still gave it 3 stars. Im guessing it’s the sunflower seed mix that the sparrows are going for. So for the second go around, I’m not going to order this product and am going to make my own mix with safflower seeds and black stripe sunflower seeds with shells to see if i can attract cardinals without attracting a swarm of house sparrows. I gave it 3 stars instead of less because the cardinals did eat it at first so if you live in an area without house sparrows than this mix should work fine. I guess if you like having a flock of house sparrows and dont mind them buzzing through at least 1lb of food per day, then this mix works great. The type of bird feeder i have is the brome squirrel buster and i use the cardinal perch for them to sit on to eat. There is no attached tray (i read that tray/platforms also attract sparrows because they like to eat on solid surfaces). i took a pic so you could see the setup.Addendum 2/1/20. Over time i realize that my initial review was overly harsh. Now i’ve learned that: 1) house sparrows can eat anything, and it’s not the fault of this bird food for fact that they seemed to take over at first; and 2) just because house sparrows take over mid-day doesnt mean that cardinals can’t find a way. Turns out the cardinals eventually made their way back. Now they will come in the mornings or late afternoons to eat. when the house sparrows aren’t as numerous. And, sometimes even mid-day when the house sparrows are chowing down, the cardinals will swoop in on the ground and eat up fallen seed. The cardinals still dont hang out in the bush anymore in front of my window because the house sparrows are so prevalent now but I realize that it’s not the bird food’s fault, that it’s mine - because i put the feeder so close to where the cardinals used to like to chill. And so now they cant chill there anymore. But overall, it is absolutely true that birds love this bird feed so it deserves a high star rating. I just wish there was a feed that didnt attract so many house sparrows but maybe that doesnt exist.So the moral of the story is Cardinals love this food, but so do house sparrows. so dont put the feeder anywhere near where the Cardinals like to chill out mid-day because a flock of house sparrows may ruin their spot.

My visiting cardinals thank you. I five starred the flavor for them. (I did not try it myself, in case you were wondering).

I have two families of Cardinals and they both seem to like it. I see both the male and the female at my feeder.

Perfect for setting up your own version of live cat TV.I have 3 indoor cats who love to sit in a window and watch the birds eat. This is perfect to fill the bird feeders with. It attracts a lot of birds, who seem to enjoy the the seeds, and provides my cats with plenty of entertainmentSafe packaging, fast shipping