Niger Seed for Wild Birds

Seeds readily taken by goldfinches. A useful addition to bird feeding

Niger seeds are well liked by my Goldfinches.
It is a bit messy but as long as you keep feeders clean and the ground under them too, you will have no issues with infections.
As we head to summer my birds visitors do decrease as they find food from the fields and hedges, but l always maintain food in my feeders

The birds who visit (finches, **** and some sparrows) love this seed but the gravel area below the feeders, is now thick with germinated seeds. Has taken a good while to clear up the mess. It seems that 1 eaten and 20 thrown down is the procedure. I will be saving Niger seed for winter and hope germination is reduced.

The goldfinches can’t get enough of the obviously delicious Niger seed.
It is a huge success.

An excellent company to deal with and my Niger was despatched quickly, and of good quality and price

My resident tribe of goldfinches love your Niger seed and spend their mealtimes loudly squabbling over who can eat the most in the shortest time. If there's any left the other birds love it too - all the way up to the largest pigeons. I take it to mean not only is it tasty but nutritious and full of essential yumminess to keep them well and healthy through the cold and wet months ahead.

Every time I look out my window at my feeders the Goldies are fighting to get to the feeders, it says it all, just so pleased to see the little ones getting good quality seed Many Thanks

We get many charms of goldfinches in the garden and surrounding areas - they are lovely to see and listen to and they just love the Niger seed - they seem to know when the feeder has been filled because they cover it in no time. Great product.

Two weeks ago I purchased 12.5 kg of Niger seed and whilst it arrived safely and is of great quality, I’m afraid that I have experienced total disappointment. I also purchased at the same time a Niger seed feeder and thus far have had one single ‘none-goldfinch’ bird fly away with a single seed. I checked the seed in the feeder yesterday and it remains free flowing and devoid of mould. I have read that it should be discarded after 4 weeks if it’s not eaten as it will doubtless have dried out.
I have been so patiently waiting for the goldfinches as I understand their numbers are declining and I wanted to do my bit; however, in the choice between sunflower hearts and the Niger seed there is no contest …the sunflower hearts win the day, every day.
I live in close proximity to Filey Dams, a haven for many bird species and I had hoped to have goldfinches aplenty and possibly siskins and other Niger seed eating birds visiting but for these seeds it’s been an abject failure. I paid a total of £47.98 for the seed and feeder and in hindsight wish I had simply stayed with sunflower seed. I won’t be buying this Niger seed again unless a miracle happens to get the goldfinches to start eating it. I wonder if I’m doing something wrong but a feeder is a feeder and it holds seed. It goes on a feeding station and then it’s over to the goldfinches etc. SO, SO DISAPPOINTING. It’s NO-ONE’S fault…. But I think I need to have a serious word with the birds lol.

Haiths Niger seed is offered to Gouldians separately to Haiths Foreign Finch tonic seed. They love it - always top quality and none goes to waste!

Very good product birds seem to like it very pleased with it

Watching no less than 10 goldfinches on the Niger seeds - so they must be good

The goldfinches have to get in quick before the sparrows eat them all, they either tap the metal holder to get them out or eat them off the cage floor

peanuts are always a favourite with most of the birds visiting our garden especially the parakeets a feeder full per day is about normal. The nigger seed was purchased because the finish we used to see see to have gone away and the nigger seed used to be their favourite unfortunately they have not returned I hope this is not a declining population problem, the seed looks to be the usual high standard.

"Excellent seeds Goldfinches love them, the downside is they eat them so quick!!!"

"Fantastic service and delivery was really quick. Very good quality product"

"It is much appreciated by my garden birds, I have to check that it is flowing freely as it clogs up when wet in spite of being in the correct feeder."

"Well we've tried lots of differing finch food but no the Goldfinches in our garden will only eat Niger seed."

"Goldcrests love it and a hen hs learnt how to reach the feeder too!"

"The locals (Goldcrests) can't get enough of them, they are constantly flying back and forth to my feeders."

"I've bought this product for years.Goldfinches come from miles around. They seem to know when I buy from Haiths. Expensive business but well worth it."

"Great for the usual Goldfinches and Siskins but recent winters have shown an influx of Redpolls. Last winter saw 26 birds and forced me to put out even more feeders which in turn produced even more Goldfinches. 5kg a month was a bit much so now I have cut back due to the waste.I have heard from bird breeders that they are particularly Acidic for caged Goldfinches but not a problem for the wild biirds. "

"Great for Greenfinches, especially after the outbreak of 'Tricomoniasis' (which is actually a single cell parasite) which devastated the popuation. I now have 16 birds sat on two big feeders full of Black Sunflower Seed's as apposed to last years single bird."

"A very popular seed and attracts many finches, even starlings have had a go at it too!. Finches are generally very messy eaters so I bought a large plastic plant pot saucer, drilled a hole to fit over the feeder pole and any dropped seed is soon eaten by other birds, eg wood pigeons, collar doves etc."

"We very occasionally saw goldfinches in our garden. We bought a 6 station feeder and a 5kg bag of niger seed, and are amazed at the number of goldfinches attracted! There are often 6 feeding with others waiting, and the bag of seed we fondly imagined would last the winter has nearly all been eaten..."

"It does attract gold finches by the score and also siskins it took a while for word to get around but when they know ,they are at the feeders all day. But they are very wasteful the lawn beneath the feeders is black with seed "

"Excellent quality and the Goldfinches love it!"