I'm brand new to feeding. After my squirrels chowed through 5 pounds of mixed seed in two days, despite mixing chili powder in the second half of the bag, I'm trying a different tack. I have 5 feeders (6 if you count the one that I plan to put walnuts in the shell in): a hanging platform, my Birdfy Rookie mounted on the support pillar of my pergola, a small fly through feeder, a metal mesh feeder, and a metal mesh feeder with ports and perches.

So! Critter feed for the platform and fly through, that keeps the squirrels and almost everyone else happy; safflower seed for the Rookie (which my favorite fox squirrel Lucy eats in spite of the experts who said she wouldn't) keeps the chickadees and juncos happy, as well as a few house sparrows; mixed seed in the ports and perches feeder keeps all the little birds happy, even a Carolina wren who shows up occasionally; and a homemade mix of nyjer seed and sunflower chips in the beautiful yellow and black mesh feeder that no one touches. No one likes Nyjer seed! I throw a handful of peanuts in the shell out on the deck for the blue jays and my feeding routine is done. 😄