Feeding less common birdseeds

Hello Rokusili, welcome to the community. I would presume the Canary Seed is for Canaries, as to the others I really have no idea which birds you would feed them to, if they really need them or if they are maybe mixed in with some of the premium bird seed. I feed peanuts, premium seed, sunflower hearts, Niger seed and fat blocks and balls, all gets eaten.

Hi Rokusii, I have tried Safflower as I read the squirrels dont like them but the birds didnt take too kindly to them...however the badger and mouse enjoyed them very much.

Thanks Catlady and Linda257 for your replies!

I had a search on some birdseed websites. Couldn't find anything on linseed and rape seed.

Reallywildbirdfood.co.uk says hemp is eaten by greenfinches, woodpeckers, nuthatches, buntings and bullfinches.
Vinehousefarm.co.uk says canary seed is eaten by house sparrows, siskins, many species of finch and buntings.
Peckamix.co.uk says safflower is eaten by bullfinches, chaffinches, collared doves, goldfinches, greenfinches, house sparrows and nuthatches.

The issue is I've never heard from anyone's personal experience having success feeding any of these seeds. And lots of birds just seem to go for sunflower hearts over any other options :/

Maybe I should buy the smallest possible bag and a small birdfeeder just to test one of these out...

That is a good idea Rokusii, buy the smallest quantity you can get, just in case they don't get eaten and that way you have not wasted lots of money. I have found that that the sunflower seeds and Niger seeds are a big hit. In the last few days I have seen a good number of goldfinches return as well as chaffinches, blue and great tits, all flocking on these feeders.

Thought I'd come back with an update. I got a trial pack of 4 (hemp, linseed, canary seed, crushed oyster shell) from reallywildbirdfood.co.uk to try out. I put out the hemp seed to start out with and stopped refilling the sunflower seed for a few days to encourage the birds to try it. Anyway, so far the blue tits and coal tits have been eating it even after I refilled the sunflower seed.
I might try the linseed next and see what eats that.

That's good, will be interesting to see what happens with the other foods.

After researching the best seed for canary, this seed from Hagen for canary was one of the top three. Hagen canary seeds are quite clean. After emptying the bag into plastic containers for easier portioning, almost no dust settles at the bottom. This bird seed mix contains just four seeds. Since Iswitched to this brand, I rarely have to throw out a half-eaten bowl of bird seeds.