No contest. Hearts by a wide margin. No waste / no mess. Everything eats the hearts; finch, cardinals, woodpeckers, chickadees, juncos, doves, almost any bird that comes to a feeder will eat hearts. Only thing to be careful of is that hearts are available in 3 categories - whole, medium, and fine. The fine tend to coagulate and spoil quickly in damp weather, the medium seem to be the favorite of the majority of feeder birds. The whole tend to be more expensive. I feed hearts almost exclusively, except in winter when I subsidizes them with suet & peanuts.
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Black oil sunflower seeds vs sunflower hearts (1 Viewer)
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Rich
Rich
Elkhornsun
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The "medium" are too large for the finches at my feeders and so more than half would get tossed to the ground where they attracted various rodents. I switched to black oil in the shell sunflower seeds and use them in a platform feeder and no more wasted seed. The hulls fall to the ground and become organic compost for the soil.
For the finches my primary feeder is one for thistle and I use one platform feeder with the sunflower seeds in the shell and another platform feeder with a no waste mix.
For the finches my primary feeder is one for thistle and I use one platform feeder with the sunflower seeds in the shell and another platform feeder with a no waste mix.