Wow Margaret, look at all that snow! The birds sure look cold but they are so pretty against that scenery; the Goldfinches are gorgeous and what a picture of that Flicker in the deep snow ... have I mentioned how I love the pretty nuthatch!
Paul, so glad you've joined us here and will be sharing photos! It sounds like you have a nice variety of birds visiting your feeders and how wonderful that the deer come for the corn ... I'm surprised it isn't squirrels!
I buy bagged birdseed as well as the black oil sunflower seeds but I also put raisins and raw peanuts in the open tray feeders. I used to buy peanuts in the shells but some of the birds leave shells everywhere so now I try to find the raw peanuts already shelled. I sometimes add raisins, bits of mango, dried blueberries and more peanuts or peanut butter to the store bought seed. I have a couple of suet feeders out and I buy suet cakes for those and sometimes I will take a large bowl and with a heavy wooden spoon stir together a mixture of bird seed, peanut butter, raisins, raw peanuts, bits of fruit and oats and put it in the suet feeders as well as smear it on tree branches ... the birds love it.