| Re: Do birds such as the finch species travel for food?
I'm in mid-Wales & our siskins and goldfinches all vanish in the winter, I've no idea where they go - presumably somewhere warmer. From spring to late autumn we have masses of both flocking to our niger seed and sunflower heart feeders, but in the winter months none at all. I don't bother putting the niger seed feeder out in the winter as nothing else eats them. There always seem to be more bluetits around in the winter - but that might just be they can get a look in with the sunflower hearts with no siskins around.
Has anyone else noticed how aggressive siskins can be? Around here they bully the goldfinches and blue tits and chase them off the feeders whilst swearing at them! They also seem to squabble amongst themselves more than most of the other birds (although I've seen goldfinches squabbling noisily too).
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