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If you have a birdfeeder or 3 in your back yard be sure to keep them filled with goodies all year 'round. We buy a lot of these ingredients at the local Feed Store and the dried fruit is too expensive to get at the health food store, so I just buy whatever the grocery store has on sale. If nothing is on sale when I want it, I just wait until it is and then I stock up. It's dried, after all, it's not going to go to waste before you use it. And birds love the stuff, especially raisins. We have a lot of blue jays and chickadees in the summer, and in winter we have mostly sparrows and some pretty, velvety looking gray (small) birds but I cannot think of the name right now.
Give this a try, lots cheaper than the store-bought small bags.