Goldfinches on feeders

Love your feeding "station"

Thanks Klahanie, it's perfectly positioned for the birds, especially the Bluetits who wait in the Pittosporum above, dive down or food and back in a split second. Here in the UK, there is an annual survey called 'The Big Garden Birdwatch' where people are asked to spend one hour counting the types of birds that land in their garden. We had seven Chaffinches at one time!

If you would like to know more about this survey, just put RSPB Garden Birdwatch into your search engine.

I will look at it. Thanks.

My gold finches seem to have disappeared Shirley. They used to be here every day.

Rose, I wonder why that is ... do you put Sunflower hearts out for them? Ever since we have done that they are in daily ... :o)

I did the bird survey. No finches though. I don’t know what’s happened to them. We used to have lots of green finches & the odd group of gold finches, but haven’t seen any for a long time, no chaffinches either. Lots of sunflower hearts there, mostly eaten by tits. Robins, black birds & dunnock eat the bits that drop. The G S Woodpecker comes every day though which is nice.

Josie, I'm looking forward to the survey findings. I miss the Blackbirds we used to have in our garden. As I've often said over the past two years, since the new neighbours hacked so much down we don't see the Blackbirds very often now ... :o((

Lovely that you have Goldfinches Shirley. I love the Goldfinches. We get one visiting the garden sometimes. My neighbour across the road gets several Goldfinches visiting most days. I saw a Wren for the first time in ages, and she was pecking at the moss growing along the bottom of the garage.

I have always used sunflower hearts Shirley. On the plus side the blue tits and a great tit are back.

Rose, that's great news for you ... :o)

Lindak, I love Wrens. Such busy little birds too.

Shirley_tulip, I read about the UK "Garden Bird watch" and was shocked that you lost 38 million birds from UK skies in the last 60 years.

Hmm, I'm really not sure how they arrive at these statistics, it sems a very high number of birds to have lost, even over 60 years.

This morning at 7am the feeders had beautiful Greenfinches on each and every one, then I saw a female Blackbird on the ground, but we had a frost so she was struggling to find any worms.