4.9 stars · 100,000+ cylinders sold
Available in 5 Flavors
Discover the easier way to feed your backyard birds. Our premium seed cylinders attract cardinals, woodpeckers, bluebirds, and more without the constant refilling and wasted seed.
Choose a flavor, then pick how many. Bigger packs mean a lower price per cylinder.
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Starter bundles
Each bundle pairs seed cylinders with a feeder, so you can start feeding today for less than buying them separately.
Just trying it
⭐ Most popular$51.64$54.26 Save $2.62
Try a variety
$76.75$81.34 Save $4.59
Starling proof it all
$121.17$127.55 Save $6.38
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Every cylinder is about 7.5" tall and 4" wide, and hollow through the center, so it slides onto any standard seed cylinder feeder. Here's what goes into each one and who it brings to your yard.
A little of everything: black oil sunflower, sunflower chips and safflower, plus peanuts, four kinds of tree nuts, raisins and cranberries. Seed eaters like cardinals and finches come for the sunflower, while fruit lovers like robins, waxwings and bluebirds go for the berries. Squirrels like it too, so pair it with a baffle.
Ingredients
Birds it attracts
Contains raisins. Hang it where dogs can't reach dropped pieces.
Every piece is already out of the shell: peanuts, coarse sunflower chips, pecans and other chopped tree nuts. Birds eat everything they pick off, so there are no hulls to clean up. It's the one to hang near patios, decks and sidewalks.
Ingredients
Birds it attracts
Shelled peanuts, sunflower chips and pumpkin seeds blended with corn, oats, rendered beef suet, tree nuts, raisins and cranberries. The suet and nuts give woodpeckers, nuthatches and chickadees a high-energy meal they can cling to and work at. Made on an Amish farm in Ohio.
Ingredients
Birds it attracts
Contains raisins. Hang it where dogs can't reach dropped pieces.
Dried mealworms with tree nuts, peanuts, NutraSaff and sunflower chips, plus cranberries, papaya and juniper berries. It's rich in protein and fat (at least 24% protein and 30% fat), which makes it a top pick for bluebirds and other insect eaters. Made on an Amish farm in Ohio.
Ingredients
Birds it attracts
Just safflower seed pressed with gelatin. Cardinals, chickadees, titmice and finches eat it readily, while its bitter taste and hard hull tend to discourage squirrels, grackles and starlings. A few may learn to eat it over time, but it's the best plain-seed choice if bullies are emptying your feeders.
Ingredients
Birds it attracts
Tends to deter squirrels, grackles and starlings.
4.9 from 3,151 reviews · 100,000+ cylinders sold
Birds within hours
As soon as I put one out the finches and cardinals showed up, along with downy woodpeckers.
Repeat buyer
We order the 12-pack all the time. No mess, no seed pile for my dog, and the birds love every variety.
Lasts as promised
One cylinder gone in 1–2 weeks. The Fruit Berry Nut Medley is extremely popular with our birds!
Expert-approved
Just as fresh as the wild bird store. The bug cylinders last maybe a day — birds devour them.
Still not sure? Call us at 989-423-1477 and a real person who knows birds will help.
They will if they can reach it. The best fix is a baffled pole system: mount the feeder 4 to 4.5 feet up, with the pole 8 to 10 feet from anything a squirrel can jump from. You can also choose a hot pepper cylinder, which mammals avoid, or our Safflower cylinder, which squirrels tend to skip (chipmunks may still visit).
You need a cylinder feeder, but any standard one works. Every cylinder has a hole through the center, so it slides onto a standard cylinder feeder rod or hanging hook. No feeder yet? The bundles above include one.
Most last a few days to two weeks in an active yard, depending on how many birds visit and whether squirrels can reach it. During fledgling season and in winter, one can disappear in a day. Safflower and hot pepper cylinders tend to last the longest.
Cylinders are held together with gelatin, which softens in water. They handle light rain fine, but for heavy rain or snow, use a feeder with a roof.
Sometimes. Birds can take up to a month to find and trust a new feeder or food. Hanging the cylinder near a feeder they already visit helps. If you also put out loose seed, they'll usually finish that first.
If you don't have a feeder yet, start with the Best of Everything Cylinder Banquet Bundle: it includes a feeder and a mix of our best-selling cylinders. If you already have a cylinder feeder, grab a 4-pack of Fruit Berry Nut Medley, our best seller.
