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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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Time for a Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder?
They can jump up to six feet high and straight across at least eight feet. Fast too, they can run up to 20 mph! When it comes to feeding birds, most will agree: Good Luck and God Bless!Squirrels: They can just about ruin your bird watching experience as you notice expensive birdseed disappearing rather quickly from bird feeders! Their athletic abilities are uncanny to any other little wild critter, and they can eat their weight in seed in one week. Frustrating, exasperating, infuriating….until you break down and invest in a real squirrel proof bird feeder.
There are some excellent squirrel-proof feeders on the market today, many that will even look good in the yard. They no longer require the metal cage thing, many of them are aesthetically pleasing, something you’d like to have in the yard!
Save seed, and save money in the long run with a squirrel proof bird feeder that really works!
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They can jump up to six feet high and straight across at least eight feet. Fast too, they can run up to 20 mph! When it comes to feeding birds, most will agree: Good Luck and God Bless!