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Bigfoot
07-Apr-20, 22:10
An unusual visitor this morning on the feeder, usually just see Sparrows,

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moshmosh
08-Apr-20, 11:27
An adult Goldfinch.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/goldfinch/

Bigfoot
08-Apr-20, 11:33
Thanks for that, they didn’t hang around long, maybe didn’t fancy the snacks on offer.

dc1
29-Apr-20, 18:37
try niger seed it need aspecial holder

dc1
29-Apr-20, 18:44
try niger seed you need a special feeder for that i used to feed the gold finches regular and had as many as fifty goldfinches in our garden at onetime stoped doing it now two many cats on the go now

Bigfoot
30-Apr-20, 13:04
Thanks for the info, i have a couple of feeders just with Tesco’s bird mix in them so I’ll change one to the Niger seed and see what happens.