Cordon Bleu Cosmos

what a lovely thing to happen, delightful birds, none have landed on my cosmos ~ i shall have to keep hoping!!

What a wonderful story (and photos) of the birds and the bees ... :o)

we have a wild area where teasels and thistles grow but in the bird feeders I was told to put black niger seed--as its so small you need a special feeder but the plastic ones are not expensive and one bag of seed lasted last winter and the goldfinches loved it

the trouble here pam is that those little feeders are not strong enough to withstand squirrel teeth!!
they wreck most of the feeders around here ~ i will see if i can find one that has squirrel bars around the outside!!!

oh yes, how lovely to have the whole flock! I have changed my feeders to invite a wider range of birds, and its working, but I still get a few goldfinches. Niger seed ..put that out and you'll have the whole flock in no time...once the cosmos is finished of course!

This was a complete surprise but I shall try and get niger seed for the Springtime and maybe get Mum and Dad who are feeding the fledglings. I get loads of Great Tits doing just that each April/May on the mixed seeds and fat balls.

I only occasionally see a Great Tit. I love watching the birds in the winter and you can't beat the song of a blackbird at dusk can you....wonderful!

I like Cosmos too. I'll have to make sure I grow some next year. Nice to have something that attracts so many different creatures :o)

Wonderful Photo`s Troddles, I had never seen a goldfinch in my garden until 2yrs back, now I have lots of them living in the Hawthorn at the bottom of my garden, have to say I didn`t know they liked the Cosmos daisies, I do grow them now so perhaps thats what attracted them in the first place, of course I do now buy the Niger seed as well....

My Cosmos are all dead and brown stalks now Lincslass but they are still feeding on the last of them, so I am not doing my usual November clear out of the beds. They sway in the wind hanging on for dear life.