GOLDEN FINCHES

Also, at this time of year, there is a great amount of natural food (seeds,
berries and bugs) available for the birds and they will choose that over a
feeder. How long have you had the feeder available to them? Sometimes, it
just takes time and patience. Another thing you can offer them is black oil
sunflower seed. That's what they eat in my yard.
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Tammie
In Ontario, Canada, North of Lake Superior
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"Howard Lester" <hlester.TakeThisOut@mmto.org> wrote in message
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> Short of hanging out a sign at the feeder that says "FREE FOOD!"... what
> kind of feeder is it? Is the seed in it purely thistle, or is it mixed
> with other seed? Maybe they don't like the feeder? (It's happened to me.)
>
> Howard in Tucson
>
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"bthache" <bthache DeleteThis @yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> Also, at this time of year, there is a great amount of natural food
> (seeds, berries and bugs) available for the birds and they will choose
> that over a feeder. How long have you had the feeder available to them?
> Sometimes, it just takes time and patience. Another thing you can offer
> them is black oil sunflower seed. That's what they eat in my yard.
> --
> Tammie
> In Ontario, Canada, North of Lake Superior
> http://community.webshots.com/user/thache
>
>
>

Yes, I switched from "thistle" (niger) to black oil sunflower seed. The
goldfinches seem t like the sunflower seed just as much, and there is far
less cleanup to do. (I live in East Texas, so the goldies are only here in
the winter.)

MaryL
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:34:22 GMT, arbon325.RemoveThis@hotmail.com wrote:

>How can I get the finches to start feeding?
>so far they are ignoring my feeder, which has thistle seed in it.

Switch to a feeder using black oil sunflower seeds. We long ago gave
up on niger feeders.
Besides our home made "suet", black oil sunflower is the only thing we
feed and we get loads of American Goldfinches.

Ross.
Southern Ontario, Canada.
43º 17' 28.63" North
80º 13' 28.55" West
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