50 Lb. Bulk Bag Wagner's Safflower Wild Bird Food Seed Attracts Cardinals, Chickadees, Titmice, Doves, Woodpeckers and Grosbeaks. Birdseed for Your Backyard Birdfeeder Discourages Squirrels

This bulk bag of safflower seeds for wild birds isn't easy to lift because of how soft the bag is, but it's well worth doing so to empty in my seeds tubs. Cardinals and finches especially love the seeds -- and most squirrels and raccoons don't want to touch them. (Mice and chipmunks, on the other hand, love to raid the feeder for them.) I feed probably 100 birds among five feeders, and I reserve these seeds for the tray feeders that cardinals love but which cannot be adequately protected from squirrels.This bulk bag cannot be easily closed to keep out pests, and the sheer volume demands a different storage container. Even with two 5-gallon paint tubs, I still have seeds that don't fit. That's when I go around and top of some of the non-safflower seed feeders to make sure the seeds aren't accessible to mice that may find their way into my garage.-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann

Most birds love this seed, even large ones like doves and blue jays. Squirrels don't overwhelm the bird feeder. A large bird feeder filled with these seeds will last two or three days of continuous feeding. I put the bird feeder on a metal table with a mesh top so ground feeders can easily eat from the feeder. Rain can drain through the mesh tabletop.

The 50 lb. bag of safflower seed came promptly. I realize I am paying for shipping since I used to pay around $50 for a 50 lb bag when it was available locally. I am glad at least it is available thru the mail-order. The birds adore the seeds, and I like watching them feed.

I'm not sure why some reviewers post that their birds don't eat this. I can't keep my feeder full. They have been chowing down so fast I can't keep up. AND no squirrels. I haven't had any issues with squirrels since I switched from sunflower seeds. Only complaint is that they are not shelled and they can be messy.

Expensive but it does keep the squirrels and blackbirds away as they don’t like

Great bird seed, fast delivery!

I have many starlings that were getting in the feeders and they don't like the safflower seeds but the smaller birds do. Some birds will even eat the seeds that get knocked to the ground so I don't have a lot of waste.

Squirrels love this it does not discourage them