[va-richmond-general] Re: millet

My overall experience with millet is it attracts the less desirables i.e. house 
sparrows, cowbirds,, starlings, pigeons and that crew-I never use it and can 
happily say I have never had a House Sparrow in my yard. I almost exclusively 
use Black Oil with the other assorted Thistle and Suet feeders. I did put out a 
lot of Safflower today and right on cue-in comes a beautiful Male Rose-breasted 
Grosbeak!

Julie K.
Chester
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From: John Caroline Coe <johncaroline@xxxxxxxx> 

> Re Katie's bird seed question: I actually said Milo was not prefered by 
> the small seed eaters. White Millet(proso) is very good and works well 
> mixed with fine cracked corn. John Coe 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:17:29 -0400 "katya" writes: 
> > Hello All, 
> > 
> > I recently stopped using a seed mix with millet. John Coe is right. 
> > It does get tiresome weeding the stuff out of flower pots. Now, I 
> > am not seeing the smaller birds who I enjoy so much: juncos; white 
> > throated sparrows; song sparrows; and the one sweet little Carolina 
> > Wren who hung out here. Is it the time of year? Could anyone 
> > please recommend a good mix that will encourage these birds to 
> > visit? 
> > 
> > Katie 
> > South of the James 
> > 
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