"Blarneystone" wrote in message
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Hi,

I picked up a bag of premium seed from the high-end garden shop nearby.
It was about $10 for 5lbs.

I was wondering if it's really better than buying a 25lb bag of
sunflower seed for $12 at wal mart?

Compared to the cheep-o seed I bought at home depot a few weeks ago
(was mostly the little beige kernels with a sunflower seed here and
there) They've really gone to town emptying my feeders in just a
matter of days.

Is it worth it?

the birds will eat the Pennkote black sunflower seeds that you find at Lowes
in 50 pound bags of $13 just fine. unless you can AFFORD the expensive kind,
I don't bother. think of the birds and what they eat if they aren't
supplimented. I've seen chickadee's in the parking lot eating FRENCH
FRIES................so the cheaper seed is just fine. I get mine at the
Co-op or Lowes (or Depot) and the birds tear it up just fine. I also hang
suet baskets with suet (that I DO get at Wally World because theirs is the
same and cheaper) because they need the extra protein when it's cold.
Thistle seed for the tiny birds when I have the bucks in thistle socks, but
once it's spring, they're on their own.............
that's my take on it. I wouldn't waste my money on the fancy stuff unless I
saw proof that they ate almost all of it and I had the money to throw away..
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern TEnnessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36