ok my nutritionally educated friends. Tell me about Nigar? I can't find it on Google. No I'm not talking about the actress either. Its a little black seed looking thing. I saw a lot of it for sale today at the bird mart. Any ideas?

Jim, this is what I found.

Many birds eat niger (thistle) seed. Niger (occasionally spelled nyjer) is imported into the United States from the Middle East and is sterilized before being sold as birdseed.
Although many ground-feeding birds such as doves, and juncos readily eat niger seed, this seed is generally offered in special niger seed feeders designed for finches. Niger seed is expensive and by offering it in specialized feeders, the birds cannot scatter and waste it. Goldfinch, house finch and pine siskins love niger seed and each of these birds is able to eat from a niger tube feeder. So, although, many birds will eat niger, this expensive seed is usually reserved for the finch family and is dispensed in a niger or thistle tube feeder.

Jim here we feed niger seed to the finches. when I first moved back home to look after my mother she had red finches. I was told if I fed them niger seed I t would draw the yellow finches. and it did.. they look like canaries.......

its called niger thistle seed...........

thank you!!! I guess the bag I read was miss spelled. lol Its a seed I don't need to get!!

I use it in one of my wild bird feeders.

Gold & house finches love the stuff. Right now we have 3 thistle socks that get emptied about once a week in this cold weather. Sometimes we have over 20 goldies at once. It is expensive tho.

I feed it to the wild birds in a "thistle sock" it's just a net sock that I hang outside full of the stuff, and I get about a dozen birds at a time ALL day.