Pennington Select Safflower Seed, Wild Bird Feed and Seed, 7 lb. Bag, 1 Pack, Dry

This is one of the best options available for pure safflower seeds. I use it to keep my birds happy and keep the squirrels away - squirrels don't have any real interest in this seed type but songbirds all enjoy it, haven't lost a single songbird but squirrels rarely even come up to look at it. This will save you a lot of money feeding the squirrels! I think my only request would be to come up with a bigger value sized bag, say 10 or 15 lbs would be great.

My songbirds love the safflower seed. Grackles are supposed to hate this food but I have one who will suffer through it anyhow as if he can't find food somewhere else. It's said the mourning doves aren't big fans but they park their butts on my feeders and suffer through it too but mostly my cardinals choose this one over the basic mixes I keep in other feeders. My finches enjoy it as well. Yes, my birds. I have a yard full of songbirds in my trees and bushes so they eat better than we do on the house most of the time. If you want to bring in the cardinals, this is the food for you to do it with!

Put this out this morning in one of my feeders, trying to get the blackbirds from coming, heard they do not like this. So far good, cardinals are coming to the feeder, did not see any blackbirds at the feeders! Still saw a few blackbirds in the trees come and go. The cardinals seem to really like it! There were also a few finches and a morning dove, so hope the blackbirds get the message and move on!

I've been looking for seed that cowbirds and blackbirds don't like because they empty my feeder in a day. These safflower seeds did the trick. While they're too expensive for me to buy all the time, I will buy occasionally. The finches and sparrows love it, but they eat through it pretty quickly too. Good stuff!

Pennington is my choice for bird seed due to quality and price/ lb. I have purchased Pennington Safflower seed mix twice from Walmart and mix it in with other Pennington seed mixes to stretch out our supply. Cardinals love it!

I have had problems with squirrels tearing up my bird feeder and I heard they don't like safflower seed. I purchased the safflower seed and the birds love it and the squirrels don't. Great product!

I used to use safflower seed in my feeders because I was told that squirrels don't like it. Well mine got used to it pretty quickly. I really don't like the bird see mixes that are mostly millet and red milo so I got a bag of this to mix with some other feed that I have. Bird seed has really gotten expensive so I wanted something that the birds would actually eat and not throw on the ground like the milo. The feeders empty very quickly with the cheap seeds that end up on the ground under the feeder.

The only thing just like their sunflower seeds it has sticks in it that I have to hand pick out which is a pain in the butt so it won't clog up the feeders. I've gotten really bad sticks wood and dust in the sunflower seed bags but they also had bug hole eaten out of them just hope it doesn't get that bad with the safflower seeds but there are a lot of stems or sticks.

I buy safflower seed because squirrels don't like it, however they like this seed brand. If you don't want squirrels try a different brand. It's not cold out so I don't know why they eat this and not the multiple walnuts in my yard. Tells me it's not a white safflower. Squirrels will eat golden safflower seed.

What happened with the quality of this bird food? It used to be my go-to. Now it is filled with junk. There are so many cockle burrs, sticks, and weeds in this mixture. I will no longer be purchasing this. How this became acceptable is beyond me. I will try to add a picture of it this evening.