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25-03-2009, 05:42 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Belfast, Nothern Ireland
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| | | First Goldfinches
Last year I noticed some Goldfinches in the trees in my street, so I bought a nyjer feeder and put it on the tree in my garden. For a whole year not one Goldfinch to be seen, and the Siskins seemed to ignore it. Today I took it down to clean it and thought I might as well chance using up the rest of the seed I bought for it, so I put it back up on another branch. Literally half an hour later we had 2 Goldfinches using it! |
25-03-2009, 08:32 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Bakewell, Derbyshire.
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
Maybe they just didn't like the original branch!  Now they have visited once, you'll be filling up your feeder every couple of days! (I hope) 
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25-03-2009, 11:10 PM
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| |  Re: First Goldfinches
What a difference a day makes Lucy, hope they hang around so you can enjoy them, such pretty birds.
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26-03-2009, 07:38 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
Excellent news Lucy. Please blow a little of your good fortune in my direction, I have renewed hope that perseverance pays off.
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26-03-2009, 08:58 AM
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
Brilliant, Lucy! Always worth persevering with the nyger!
I had 2 Siskins on my feeder yesterday and I am hoping that the odd Goldfinch that passes through occasionally will stop for a meal! |
26-03-2009, 09:03 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: N.Cheshire
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
lol,aren't they funny!
A branch must make a big difference to them though!!
Hope they keep coming back now Lucy! |
26-03-2009, 11:29 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Coast, UK, nr Dorchester
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
Excellent! My mother, who's 80, rang a couple of days ago to say the seed feeder we put up a few weeks ago has just had goldfinches on it. She's filling it up nearly everyday now too! |
26-03-2009, 12:40 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Reading, Berkshire
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
Fantastic news, Lucy! I've seen a charm of 3 or 4 goldies 3 times now on the small birch tree in next door's garden so I bought a nyjer feeder and some seed. I've yet to put it up but fingers crossed it will entice these beauties down. |
26-03-2009, 05:36 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Durham
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
Always worth checking out the natural, local food supply too Lucy.
We are surrounded by thistle seed (Nyger) here in the wild, so there are many Goldfinches in this area.I have 30+ visit all day everyday as they come in from the fields for Sunflower hearts.As i type this,there are 18 on the feeders and several on the ground as well as Chaffs and Greens.Nyger doesn't work in my garden simply for that reason.
Where a feeder is placed is important too so maybe you are now onto a winner |
26-03-2009, 05:39 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Belfast, Nothern Ireland
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| | | Re: First Goldfinches
It was originally on a lower branch but beside the hedge as most of the birds in my garden like hiding in the hedge any time someone walks past. I moved it to a higher branch but it's now more exposed. I haven't seen them again since, and the normal seed feeders aren't being emptied as fast at the minute - the fat balls though are disappearing very quickly | | | |
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