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Q. Does anything eat Safflower?

I still chuckle when people say “nothing eats that stuff”. If that is the case, it is dissappearing by the thousands of pounds each year from feeders in our area because it is only second in sales to Black Oil Sunflower. It is true that less birds like Safflower, but this is considered a good things by most. It is the less desirable birds like House Sparrows, Common Grackle and Brown-headed Cowbirds that tend not to like it (not to mention squirrels). The good news is we have been experimenting with a new Safflower seed know as NutraSaff, that is both more nutritionally valuable and accepted by more birds.At my house I have seen many species of birds including American Goldfinches eating it, something I never witnessed with regular Safflower. My squirrels still hate it.

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