I get a lot of
birds visiting my all-year-round garden restaurant, and a large number of them are the beautiful goldfinches. Today was no exception but they took me by surprise. I needed to clean the bird feeder which deters squirrels. It's not the easiest feeder to clean and I do it by immersing the feeder for quite a while in anti-bacterial soapy water and then I rinse with a large amount of boiling water. I think that does the trick. While cleaning that feeder, I filled another feeder and suspended it from my washing line. As it was farther away from the protection of neighbouring trees, I thought the birds might be reluctant to feed from it but, no, the goldfinches arrived in droves.
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| Goldfinches love sunflower seeds |
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Goldfinches eating sunflower seeds from
squirrel-deterring bird feeder |
Seven goldfinches fed from the feeder suspended on the washing-line while others ate seed which I had scattered on the ground for ground-feeding birds and squirrels.
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| Goldfinches love sunflower seeds |
The images could be better but I have to take them through double-glazing because if I open the door, the birds fly away!
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| Goldfinches love sunflower seeds |
