Other seeds and nuts. Black sunflower seeds. . Bird cake and food bars. Fat balls and other fat-based food bars are excellent winter food. . Live foods and other insect foods. . Dog and cat food. . Rice and cereals. . Fats, margarines and oils. . Milk and coconut.
What can I use instead of bird seed?
Other bird seed alternatives to offer to birds include fruit and vegetable seeds, dried fruits, peanut butter and/or jelly, apples, pears, nuts, and unbuttered popcorn.
What can you feed a bird if you don't have bird food?
Vegetables: Birds eat a lot of seed and plant material, and scrap vegetables can be a welcome feeder treat. Frozen peas or corn (thawed first), leftover baked potatoes or bits of canned vegetables, even from canned soups, can all be offered to backyard birds.
What household food can you feed birds?
What Can Birds Eat From the Kitchen?Apples. Birds that eat apples: Eastern bluebird, pine grosbeak, gray catbird, northern cardinal, northern flicker, American robin, scarlet tanager, cedar waxwing and red-bellied woodpecker. ... Bananas. ... Eggshells. ... Melon, Pumpkin and Squash Seeds. ... Peanut Butter. ... Raisins.What Can Birds Eat From the Kitchen?
Will birds eat cereal?
Breakfast cereals are usually just as tasty to birds as it is to you. The wholegrain and fruit ingredients in many common breakfast cereals are delicious to most bird species who will hoover up any cereal you leave in a bird feeder or on a bird tray.
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