Good information about goldfinch feeding preferences.
How can I attract gold finches to my bird feeders?
Lots of birds come to my feeders, but very seldom do I see gold finches.
What can I do to attract them?
Do you get confused trying to distinguish between a female house finch and a pine siskin? Here is a good post on that subject.
A member of the finch family that can easily be confused with a sparrow is the Pine Siskin.
Check out the pictures of a not-too-happy squirrel.
The teeth are bared, the claws outstretched. Even his whiskers seem to bristle with animosity.
If anyone still thinks grey squirrels are cuddly little critters, here's an image to prove them wrong.
The creature had climbed into a supposedly squirrel-proof bird feeder to steal nuts left out for the birds.
Not so cuddly now: It's claws the psycho squirrel
A little humor today. Here are a few funny pictures of birds.
All photographers has duds. Usually we delete them but a few can be quite amusing.
This is a very important article stressing the importance of keeping your bird feeder clean. Please read this.
Dean Eades is urging householders to clean out their birdfeeders to prevent the spread of the infection
"Bird feeders can be infection grounds as the rain goes into the seed and it becomes mouldy, so you do not want to be topping it up with new seed.
This looks like a great place for bird watching. Get your hiking boots and bird watching binoculars and head to Hawk Mountain.
Hawk Mountain is a refuge for birds of prey. But what draws thousands of hikers there every fall is the fall migration. They have and maintain over eight miles of trails that take you to various lookouts.
A humorous look at trying to squirrel proof your bird feeder. Personally the only thing that I have found to work is to install the feeder away from trees, hang from a shepherds hook (or mount on a pole) and put an inverted baffle on the pole beneath the feeder.
A product that says "squirrel proof" should have a big red flag on it because you and I both know -nothing- is squirrel proof. They are small critters with a small brain, and they make very poor decisions about whether to cross the street when a car is coming, but when it comes to getting into something people don't want them to get into, they are Einsteins, tireless engineers who always find a way around, over or through any obstacle you might install.
An interesting interview with Matthew C Brown who conducts birdwatching tours. Bird watching continues to be a popular activity.
What do you like best about your field of work?
"I get to do what I love. I'm outside all the time, taking people to beautiful places and seeing new birds. It's really kind of the thrill of showing people new birds."
