Wagner’s 62051 Nyjer Seed Wild Bird Food, 5-Pound Bag
$14.98
Price: $14.98
(as of Oct 19, 2025 14:11:57 UTC – Details)
Wagner’s Nyjer Seed is the absolute favorite of Finches, such as the American Goldfinch, House Finch, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin and other small songbirds. This tiny delicacy is used in Finch feeders which have smaller holes and tiny perches – perfect for the Finches but discouraging to larger birds. Wagner’s Nyjer Seed is the perfect choice for nurturing Finches with its high fat and protein content. Sometimes referred to as “black gold,” nyjer seed may seem more expensive than some premium blends, it actually lasts longer as it packs an incredible 150,000 seeds per pound and the seeds create no waste, no mess, no growth and more visits to your feeder. Fill your Finch feeder with Wagner’s Nyjer Seed and enjoy the antics of these beautiful and sociable birds in your backyard. Trust your backyard birds to the experts at Wagner’s.
The favorite seed of Finches including the desirable Goldfinch
Contains 150,000 seeds per pound creating many visits to the feeder
An extra clean seed that provides high energy content for backyard songbirds
Convenient reclosable slider
Ideal for use in Finch feeders which have smaller holes and tiny perches
Customers say
Customers report that goldfinches and house finches love this birdseed, with never a shortage of finches at their feeders. The seed is fresh and customers find it offers good value, with one mentioning it brings many birds to their patio area. The product features a convenient Velcro closure. While some customers say their birds eat it, others report their birds won’t consume it.
Martine –
Good Quality, the Finches Love It
Very good quality and decent price. Finches love this seed. Doves don’t eat it. I placed mine in an open bowl and a big mess of them scattering around. It needs to be in a feeder more controlled so it does not scatter. I use White Proso Millet and Sunflower Kernels Medium Grind (broken and shelled) so the doves and finches can eat them easily. Whole sunflower seed even when shelled are too large for small birds, so get the medium grind instead. I use a large wood tray on the fence. I place two poultry chick feeders on it, filled with White Proso Millet topped with sunflower kernels. The birds have to stick their heads in to eat, preventing fighting and scratching and scattering of food. Then I place some Nyjer seed in a bowl in the middle so finches can gather and eat. The tray catches any mess that is cleared up by birds in the morning before I put out the seeds again. This system works well. However, finches like to eat in a group an and are intimidated by doves. Having a finch hanging feeder for Nyjer will keep away doves and focus on Finches only. A better solution.I never use squirrel guards. They are cruel and only make squirrels angry and frustrated. Instead, I have 2 squirrel feed trays attached to fence. Each one has a bowl of sunflower kernels and a bowl of nuts – walnuts, almonds, peanuts. Now the squirrels don’t attack each other or birds to get at the food and birds can eat in peace. Harmony. Putting out food creates aggression, agitation, competition for resources in wildlife. You have to manage it to get balance and peace and no wastage of the food. Giving doves a platform – they love it. Giving squirrels their own bowls, they leave birds alone, do not bully them, and don’t overturn bird feeders. Giving finches a separate feeding space means they can gather with their own kind and not be bullied by doves or squirrels.
HikingMama –
Great quality and mess-free packaging
Always great, clean, nyjer seed – no fillers or debris mixed in. I use it in my feed mix for pigeons, doves, and blue jays, and they all love it. The Velcro-style seal is awesome: super convenient and very thoughtful.
Wanda –
Good Nutrition
Very clean seed, well packaged! Buying in larger quantities saves money and provides more seed between orders.Goldfinches love the black thistle seed…and other birds as well. There is great nourishment for the little finches.
Pennygirl –
Birds love it
I specifically bought safflower and nyjer seeds because we are inundated with starlings for the first time. They have always been in my neighborhood by the hundreds every afternoon around 4 but they land on the wires or a yard, stay there chattering for 5 or 10 minutes, and then leave. I had been using a Lyric Songbird no-mess blend in my window feeders but the starlings descended one day and stripped the feeders clean in minutes. I had 14 of them all at once on each of two 4″ x 12″ attachable window feeders, fighting with each other for the food. It was like a cartoon. They were stuffed inside, flipping the seed out, on the top, hanging on the perch on the front. If I wasn’t so mad I would have been LOL. Actually I was. But I was ripping mad too. I was knocking at the window until I thought I was going to break it. Believe me. They didn’t give a hoot. Knock away, sucker. We’ve got your food. Best in the neighborhood. Hahaha. The same thing happened the next day. I left the feeders empty for over a week and then replaced the songbird mix with half nyjer/half safflower seeds with a few peanuts in their shells mixed in. Everything was great for about 10 days. The cardinals, purple finches, sparrows, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, bluejays all took a day or so to get used to the new offering and then seemed to love it. I was willing to put up with having to sweep up the seed mess on the walkway under the window if it meant the new mix kept the starlings at bay. It did until 2 days ago. Now the feeders are stripped again, there’s seed and poop all over the feeders, the side of my house, and under the window. It was extraordinarily cold here the past two days (-10 with 35 mph winds) and I’m wondering if that’s why the starlings are eating food they allegedly hate. I will try one more time and then I’ll have to stop feeding the birds I love if the starlings come back. I hate to do it but I can’t keep up with the cost and mess caused by the hordes of starlings. I’ll post this on the safflower seed site as well so that other buyers will be aware that starlings will eat it. UPDATE: it’s been a few weeks since the frigid temps we had on the weekend that the starlings stripped the feeders. Since those two days I have only seen one starling once at the feeders. The nyjer/safflower/peanuts in shell mix is definitely keeping the starlings at bay and the rest of the birds happy. The starlings must’ve been starving on the frigidly cold days and would have eaten anything for energy. I’m glad I could oblige, I suppose! It’s a real mess under the feeders and I have to sweep every day or two to keep the seed from tracking into the house but it is fun to watch the birds fly in and enjoy themselves at the window feeders.
D. Vosper –
House Finches like it
Once I hung the feeder the pretty House Finches went right for it. I now have a small “finch farm” with pretty, friendly, pleasantly churping birds.Buy a finch feeder or sock. I repurposed a regular bird feeder to dispense this fine-consistancy seed. The problem with this is that the fine seed flows too fast through the large ports on the feeder. I had to shrink the ports with duct tape. The Finches scatter the black seed and make a mess on my balcony. So I attached an aluminium pie plate to the underside of the feeder to catch some of the waste.The finches divide their time between the finch feeder and the sunflower-filled Cardinal feeder. They pretty much ignore the third “finch food” mix.I am however disappointed with the absence of Gold Finches. I know that they exist in my area, but just not at my feeders. I did spot one the first year but none since. I tried introducing Echinacea plants which are said to attract Gold Finches. But in reality GFs are attracted to Echinacea seeds. As fall approached I discovered that my plants were sterile hybrids that do not produce seeds.The strange spelling of the seed is to protect racial sensibilities – they are native to the African country of Niger.
Karen B Muscato –
Excellent Seed at a Good Price
This Nyjer Seed is excellent. Nothing but fresh clean seed in the bag with a Velcro type closing. I plan to order another bag today.I love to open a bag of bird seed and find nothing but seed inside. Does not happen often!!
DJ –
Fresh. Perfect for Gold and House Finches
Goldfinches and House Finches love this seed. Always fresh and that is important to them
Ian Core –
As advertised
Good – loved watching the birds, not the finches eat