Lyric Golden Safflower Seed - Attracts Cardinals, Chickadees, Woodpeckers & More - 5 lb Bag

Squirrels are leaving my feeders alone and the birds love these seeds. The seeds are clean and fresh. High quality seeds.

Birds like this seed as well as the white variety. Squirrels may forage beneath but they don't seem to think it is worth the climb! I have a "porch swing" open feeder that I pour this in as well as others that I use this seed to mix with black sunflowers. Attracts birds, but they don't seem to gobble it like others and it lasts longer it seems before refilling. For my area, I have determined that buying safflower and sunflower seeds and making m wn mixes is the most economical. This order was as cheap as any local big box store and it was delivered to to too! I have also trained my squirrels with my own "spicy sauce" I mix into my seeds. It took about a month before they became shy of the feeders. They now forage but do not try and attack the actal feeder.

The birds love it, squirrels don't. Its as described and does the job! I will say chickadees are the ones that really like it at my yard, over the cardinals or woodpeckers, but that probably has more to do with the feeder and placement than the food.

I made this mistake twice. There should be a cardboard protection square on top of bag inside box. As you use scissors to open box, you also slice the huge bag of birdseed. Good price, quick delivery and my birds like the seed. But the packaging stinks.

Very fresh Salflower seed for feeding my outdoor birds this winter here in Minnesota. Great price for 12 lb bag. I have to pay $18 for 6 pound bag at Ace Hardware here in Minnesota and this was $23 for twice that much, so I saved $13. The seed arrived nicely packaged in a plastic bag and cardboard box and is very fresh seed. Hard to come by the yellow Salflower seed here unless I drive a super long way to feed stores. Definitely will order again from this company. Another plus is the squirrels don’t like it. It’s a high protein seed that many of the other birds will eat, hence the price.

We've been buying seed from this company since August. We go through a 12 lb bag of golden safflower seed in about three weeks. We have a sizeable group of juvenile cardinals (15-20), who are forever squabbling in the feeder as they jockey for position. Several pairs of adult cardinals appear along with woodpeckers, doves, palm warblers, etc. The jays, grackles, and squirrels leave the golden safflower seed feeders alone.Also, with regard to shipping, it has always shown up earlier than predicted. That's not a bad thing at all.Finally, because I thought the seed wouldn't be delivered until later in January, I bought some white safflower seed from Walmart. As Lyric advertises, the seed is more beneficial than its hard, thicker-hulled counterpart and you can see the oil coating on the golden safflower.I highly recommend this product.

Don't waste your money. I can't speak to the flavor or nutrition, but I can tell you about the birds who frequent my garden. I have a lot of birds, of a wide variety, who visit my garden. I have one feeder of mixed seed and one of white safflower. I refill my white safflower every day. What the birds don't eat, what ends up on the ground under the feeder is eaten by squirrels; despite the claim that they don't like safflower. Anyway, I decided to try this Golden Safflower as the claim is "More nutrition and less waste than white safflower" and "Not a favorite of squirrels." Well, after three days, I am throwing this away. Literally no bird is eating the golden safflower, and I have no idea whether the squirrels will eat it as no birds are going near the safflower feeder so nothing is ending up on the ground - the squirrels can't get to the feeders. The birds, who usually flock around my white safflower feeder, are now settling for the mixed seed. I am going back to white safflower, the seed they actually eat in droves. I am convinced there is "less waste" because the birds don't like this much if at all. As for value of money, probably is very good as very little will actually be eaten!

So many variety of birds love this seed.