Complete Patio Blend, 5 lbs Bag - Wild Bird Food Seed and Nut Mix

The birds love this seed - all gets eaten and there are no shells to discard so no mess! Im able to fill my front porch feeder with this without having to sweep every day. The only bad is that the birds enjoy it so much I'm going through a bag a month for one feeder so cost adds up.

The feed store sells a 20 pound bag of this bird food for the same price I purchased a 5 pound bag from this company. My bad for not reading the fine print. The birdseed is great this company not so much. The bag also arrived with a hole in it...

The product is what it says it is "patio blend with no waste". However, my last two deliveries (of two bags) were delivered with one of the bags cut or torn open at a corner with seed spilled in the box.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: This is our favorite bird seed but every bag comes with a hole in it so it spills all over the box and we have to transfer it to a ziploc.

The birds love this stuff (it goes SO fast) and we constantly have a few birds eating from it at a time. It also brought around some new birds we had never seen before so that was fun too.

Expensive. Attracts more birds than any other seed I've EVER tried. In under an hour we had mine species of birds and even a Nuttall's woodpecker, not usually attracted to these kinds if seeds. I'll be buying it again even though the birds will eat me out of house and home in an hour! (True. Three cups disappeared in less than an hour. And these do NOT germinate, a very important consideration for our small patio edges with a dirt path )

The bag I received is mostly hulled millet, with about 30% hulled sunflower chips (very small chips, very broken up), and a few pieces of the promised nuts. Local birds do not eat millet. Millet is great for doves, and even the Steller's Jays here won't eat it; chickadees, thrushes, towhee, song sparrow, juncos, etc., all dig through the millet but don't eat it. Chickadees seem to find the sunflower chips in this mix too small, or something; they pick them up and drop them. Previous mix purchased at hardware store had full-size hulled sunflowers more to their liking and a lot more peanuts. The mix is cleanly hulled and non-germinating, not much chaff, so if you have a lot of mourning doves, say, in your yard, and no rodent problems, this would be okay for scattering on the ground, as all of the doves enjoy grass seeds. I will not buy this again for my local PNW forest-predominant birds.

No waste, No mess, better value because you're not paying for any shells... Birds love it! & so does the kitties! I would recommend it.