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How to Attract Goldfinches

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By Karen Bridgers
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Tiny goldfinches, with their beautiful yellow breeding plumage, are popular feeder birds throughout the year. If you see some in your area, provide a feeder for them, and they're likely to come flocking!

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Purchase a tube seed feeder with several feeding ports appropriate for smaller birds.

  2. Step 2

    Purchase black-oil sunflower seeds, hulled sunflower seeds or niger seed.

  3. Step 3

    Fill feeder with seed.

  4. Step 4

    Hang feeder from a tree or another appropriate location.

Tips & Warnings
  • Goldfinches can be found throughout most of the United States at all times of the year.
  • Hulled sunflower seeds are more expensive than those in the shell but are very popular with birds and save you the chore of cleaning up sunflower hulls.
  • Other species of birds, including siskins, nuthatches, house finches, grosbeaks and jays, may be attracted to sunflower seeds.
  • Make sure feeding ports on your feeder are small enough to contain niger seed if you choose to offer it.
  • Goldfinches will also eat seeds out of hopper feeders, satellite feeders and off the ground.
  • Clean seed feeders regularly and avoid letting wet or damp seed remain in feeders.

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retired07 said

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on 6/26/2009 I've gone through so much Niger seed & I haven't lured one Goldfinch to the feeder. I've done all of your Tips & Warnings. Once in a while I'll see them at the neighbors or flying though the yard. So I finally got tired of throwing money away so I took the feeder down. Do you have any more tips?

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Anonymous said

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on 11/22/2005 I made a feeder out of a plastic soft drink bottle.The hole was big enough that a dove got inside, but couldn/t get out. I had to pull her out. She was so frightened! So please watch the size of the feeding port. I sure learned my lesson!

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