yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

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arden (NAearthMOM) wrote:

yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"


We were visited by a goldfinch earlier this year but haven't seen one
since. They're our state bird but, alas, are getting awfully close to
extinct west of the Cascades, so to have such a visitor is a rare treat,
though as a child I remember spotting them all the time.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

how nice for you - in my part of Canada (near Toronto) we have them in large
numbers all summer long. I recommend you buy niger seeds for them and you
will get many more. J.

paghat wrote:

In article ,
arden (NAearthMOM) wrote:

yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

We were visited by a goldfinch earlier this year but haven't seen one
since. They're our state bird but, alas, are getting awfully close to
extinct west of the Cascades, so to have such a visitor is a rare treat,
though as a child I remember spotting them all the time.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I am happy to say I have a number of them in the area. They are great
little birds. We must have a half a dozen pairs in the area. They sure do
a job on my finch feeder. Of course they switch to insects during part of
the year.



--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math


"NAearthMOM" wrote in message
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yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

My husband received a mesh bag full of niger seed for Christmas.
Before this, we always put the niger seed in one of those tube
feeders. The goldfinches had always liked the tube feeder, and it took
them about a month to decide the mesh bag might be worth trying. Now
they prefer the mesh bag over the tube feeder. We've had more
goldfinches in the yard this year than we've ever had (we live in
Wisconsin).

LeAnn


Share the view from Rural Route 2. . .
Christmas In Dairyland
To read sample chapters and other stories:
http://ruralroute2.com

"NAearthMOM" wrote in message
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yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Kewl. We saw our last one about mid June. They usually do not return
until fall (September-October) signaling thew end of our hot
eather. -Olin (Near Phoenix AZ)

Here in the UK Goldfinches are more noticeable in the Autumn and Winter when
they are feeding on seed heads.
I always have a few teasels growing for them to feed on.


--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

They live here in winter. We don't get to see them in full plume. You can see
their yellow, but not a brilliantly as you when they are mating.


On 05 Aug 2003 17:23:52 GMT, arden (NAearthMOM) wrote:

yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

I have a patch of common multi-flowered sunflowers. They love those. I see them
out there swinging around on their tall stalks when they come home.

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:22:36 -0400, Jutta wrote:

how nice for you - in my part of Canada (near Toronto) we have them in large
numbers all summer long. I recommend you buy niger seeds for them and you
will get many more. J.

paghat wrote:

In article ,
arden (NAearthMOM) wrote:

yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

We were visited by a goldfinch earlier this year but haven't seen one
since. They're our state bird but, alas, are getting awfully close to
extinct west of the Cascades, so to have such a visitor is a rare treat,
though as a child I remember spotting them all the time.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Wow, just one? I'm sorry :-( I have them all year round and have counted
as many as 15 at one time on my three finch feeders.

I'm glad you got to see one though. If you put out thistle seed for them
that one may tell his friends about the place to chow :-)

LeeAnne

"NAearthMOM" wrote in message
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yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

Recently when I lived in a more urban area, I would sometimes wake to a
persistent pecking at my BR window. The window appears very dark from the
outside; I don't know if it was trying to get around the glass, looking for
food, trying to nest or what. But I didn't really want whatever it was to
make this a habit, so I went to the window to surprise the creature. It was
a little goldfinch, who couldn't see me through the window, at all. I was
able to study him nearly eye-to-eye, until my legs were numb from crouching.
I felt so charmed, I didn't have the heart to scare him away.

"NAearthMOM" wrote in message
...
yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

great tip about the mesh bag; never heard of that but will pay attention
in the stores from now on.

MacTech wrote:

My husband received a mesh bag full of niger seed for Christmas.
Before this, we always put the niger seed in one of those tube
feeders. The goldfinches had always liked the tube feeder, and it took
them about a month to decide the mesh bag might be worth trying. Now
they prefer the mesh bag over the tube feeder. We've had more
goldfinches in the yard this year than we've ever had (we live in
Wisconsin).

LeAnn

Share the view from Rural Route 2. . .
Christmas In Dairyland
To read sample chapters and other stories:
http://ruralroute2.com

they must come up to Canada... lol

omi wrote:

"NAearthMOM" wrote in message
...
yes, I saw my first goldfinch this week!

Just wanted to share with some like minded gardeners!

Kewl. We saw our last one about mid June. They usually do not return
until fall (September-October) signaling thew end of our hot
eather. -Olin (Near Phoenix AZ)

We have purple finches and , I believe they are called "house finches (?)" but
never in all my years here on LI have I seen a goldfinch!
Once in awhile, in the fall, we'll get a hummingbird or two.
Love Caryn
little birds. We must have a half a dozen pairs in the


"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

V- my mom thought a parakeet had escaped! The cutie was a brilliant yellow!

Love caryn
We don't get to see them in full plume. You can see
their yellow, but not a brilliantly as you when they are mating.



"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"