Cole's HM05 Hot Meats Bird Seed, 5-Pound

Even using for years. The only thing that keeps squirrels away. I tried the Walmart red pepper bird feed and that didn’t work against the squirrels. Also lasts a long time since just meat and no shells. More expensive since Covid, but still worth the money and I’m frugal! My birds all love it! All varieties of birds!

No more Rocko the squirrels or Ralph the rats! It took a solid week for birds to come back because we stopped feeding until we bought this food. A squirrel tried it and didn't come back for a day. Then when it did it stayed back tempted but didn't eat. They visit but don't eat! Birds are back and we've been feeding for several weeks. Ralph visited one night, but hasn't been back 😄 These hot seeds work, Thank You!

This stuff is the best and totally worth the investment. I use it on my BirdBuddy feeder and the squirrels finally leave it alone, saving me a ton on food. The birds love it.

Birds love this and the Squirrels hate it. They smell the seed and leave the feeder alone. I do feed the Squirrels though, they have their own critter blend.

The squirrels loved it 😞 but the variety of birds I usually have didn’t seem to like it. I would only get cardinals, tufted titmouse, and finches.

WORKS!! I have 7 various types of feeders, four are tube feeders. Not unusual to look out and see five or six squirrels in my back yard. Always one or two on the feeders eating away. My feeders were empty yesterday so I filled them with Coles. WOW! Squirrels would get up on the feeders and then get off. They definitely do not like that seed! Nice to look out and see the birds eating and not the squirrels. Kind of expensive but worth it. Seed now goes to the birds plus no more damaged feeders by the squirrels! Just bought another bag. Really works, for me at least!

I really like this. It works well. Birds flock to it and the squirrels, opossums and chipmunks want nothing to do with it. One caution - I learned not to mindlessly put my fingers near my eyes after distributing the seed. It takes a while and time, along with some eye wash, to get over it.

Amazing! I bought only the small bag because I didn't think there was much real chance the "hot" element could actually deter the legions of squirrels I have for at least nine years been inadvertently and unwillingly feeding with a couple of fine quality bird-attracting seed mixes. But in the now six or seven days I've been using Hot Meats in my two feeders I have seen only one squirrel come near - yesterday. After cautiously inspecting the seeds which had fallen to the ground it finally gently picked one up in its mouth - then immediately leaped up onto the nearby (and, happily, freshly filled) bird bath to take the longest drink of water I've ever seen a squirrel take. It then walked away and hasn't returned. Nor have I seen any others of the many who always voraciously and enthusiastically devoured much (most?) of what they clearly deemed to be "their" food. Although I missed the very first hour or two of the Hot Meats stuff being in the feeders I have to believe, given the present complete dearth of squirrels anywhere near the feeders, that during those first several hours after the Hot Meats mix was put into the feeders all the others had experiences similar to the one I later witnessed. The seed doesn't disagree with the birds at all, however. In fact, it even seemed to attract more and more varied birds. For example, I got my first blue jay in five or six years, and a small flock of migrating White-Crowned Sparrows - a type of bird which has never deemed my feeders worth visiting - gorged themselves for several days. And there is still a bit more seed in the bag! Which reminds me, no squirrels means, at least in my yard, filling the feeders far less often while still providing the same amount of sustenance for the birds. I have have just ordered the much more ecomomical 20-lb bag. Yes, pricey. But since I was using a a great deal of less expensive (though not cheap) regular Cole mixes - most of which was being gobbled up by the squirrels - I fully expect to come out ahead money-wise by feeding only the Hot Mix seed. I'll also not have to fill the feeders nearly as often But since some reviewers have said this doesn't work well for their birds, you might want to try a 5-lb bag before springing for the largest one.