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If you’d like to give the local birds (and squirrels) a bit of variety in their diet, go to the local super market and buy a bag of peanuts. There’s no need to provide gourmet food here. The basic roasted in the shell peanut will do for starters. Peanuts are a treat for many wildlife species. Offer them and you’ll be treated to exceptional performances as your birds and squirrels encounter and partake of this new food.
When peanuts are left in the shell, ground and tree squirrels, chipmunks, jays, magpies and many woodpeckers will make oft with all you can offer. Picture a diminutive chipmunk trying to stuff a three nut unshelled goober into his cheek pouch. Jays hide the peanuts in strange places. Next spring, you can go on a treasure hunt, the course charted by the birds.
Hang a batch of unshelled peanuts in an onion bag, suspended well out of the reach of squirrels (if you succeed in doing this, let me know) and you’ll create a nifty feeder for small woodpeckers and titmice. How a downy woodpecker knows that it should land on plastic netting and, with nearly surgical precision, extract a peanut kernel from the shell, I’ll probably never know. I never lose interest in watching the process however and perhaps someday I’ll come up with an explanation.
For weaker billed birds, shelled peanuts are the bill of fare. Buyer beware, however. The seed mix or bulk seller of bird seed that tries to convince you that the little bitter peanut hearts are the peanut food of choice is either trying to dupe you or, more likely, just doesn’t know
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