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Lotsa Finches? Add a Few Thistle Bird Feeders!
Because of the Goldfinches’ sweet disposition, they will not compete for food. If feeders are crowded, they will seek food elsewhere. The most effective way to keep them around your yard, is to add a few inexpensive thistle bird feeders, like the thistle sacks, or stockings.Extremely effective, Goldfinches and others will use thistle sacks all the time. The longer, or larger the sack, the more birds it will feed, as the whole feeder offers clinging space.
Now available in black, they offer a striking contrast when birds feed from them.To enjoy Goldfinches’ vibrant summer color, keep thistle bird feeders out year-round. Offering friendly habitat, via food, and shelter during frigid winter months truly helps them to thrive and flourish!
Create a habitat simply by way of birdhouses, roosting pockets, mature trees and thickets, and water when all sources have frozen, with a heated birdbath. The birds will grace your yard and give hours of entertainment!
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Attract More Finches to Your Thistle Feeder
Encourage finches and other small songbirds to take up residence in your yard!
If you feed nyjer, or thistle seed, you’re most likely attracting gold finches, house and purple finches, red polls, pine siskins and possibly buntings (depending on the area)
It’s best to keep your thistle feeder out year round to enjoy the vibrant colors of birds in warmer months. Finches and others will also benefit greatly from a dependable food source during frigid winter months.
Another way to entice finches and keep them around your yard is with nesting material. Cotton nesting balls are a wonderful way to encourage songbirds to nest in your yard, provided there is adequate shelter like mature trees, or brush and thickets.
Add a water source to this equation, and you’ve created a wildlife habitat! Food, water and shelter are all it takes to attract songbirds and help them to thrive and flourish. So get ready for the next nesting season with your thistle feeder, by adding water and shelter for finches and other songbirds.
You’ll be amazed at what a few effective wild bird accessories can do!
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Keep Thistle Feeders Out Year-Round
American Goldfinches are one of the favorite backyard songbirds. They are admired for their gentle disposition, vibrant yellow color, sweet song, and graceful flight. It has earned the nickname of “wild canary” but the fact is, Goldfinches aren’t yellow consistently throughout the year.
As trees begin to turn with fall color, so does the molting process for Goldfinches. They begin to replace their tattered and worn feathers with a nice, new set! The color change in males is most noticeable, as the vibrant yellow hue is replaced with the dull, brownish color of new feathers, and their little black cap disappears. Females also molt, but their appearance doesn’t change too much.
The dull, winter feathers of Goldfinches will not stop them from flocking to thistle feeders. If you keep them filled all year, you’ll be rewarded with wonderful, vibrant colors in warmer months!
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Because of the Goldfinches’ sweet disposition, they will not compete for food. If feeders are crowded, they will seek food elsewhere. The most effective way to keep them around your yard, is to add a few inexpensive 
Now available in black, they offer a striking contrast when birds feed from them.
