| Niger Seeds
Just wondered about other people's experiences with feeding niger seeds.
I had goldfinches lurking when I moved in, so bought a special feeder for niger seeds for them. After about a year of trying, various locations around the garden, and many many batches of sprouted/rotted niger seeds, on a whim I just chucked the last of the latest bag of niger seed in a normal cheapie port feeder - hey presto, the next day the goldfinches were queueing up and so also the goldfinches, and now they're eating from it daily!
So I ask you, why the specialist feeders? They don't seem to spill from the ordinary ones, even in strong winds.
And I wonder how many other people have given up when maybe the seeds would have been taken from a normal feeder? |