Hey Dan -

We have a lot of turkeys - this past Spring was a super year for poults - and we see Turkeys almost every day on the property. They'll eat the sunflower seeds - but the songbirds in Sept & Oct are amazing.
The Turkeys really concentrate on Beech Nuts, Ash & Cherry seeds come fall - but in winter - they rely on the standing corn - if there was sunflower seeds still left after Octer

bawabajim -

The deer never eat our sunflowers earlybecause there is plenty of other preferred forage for the amount of deer we have - we plant clover and soybeans (which helps alot) - but also - our neighbor to the East has 30 acres of alfalfa and the neighbor to the South has 40 acres of soybeans.

The Japanese beetles this year worked hard on the sunflowers and soybeans both though!

Winter foods are our deer herd's limiting factor around here.

FH