calling all wild bird feeders!!

[CanuckBock]

OK... I been lurking for a while looking at all the awesome pictures..... NOW... inquiring minds want to know HOw big are Gold finches and do you really eat them?

deb

Deb--never mind the sillies...

Goldfinch is 11 to 14 cm (4 to 5.5 inches) long and weighs 11 to 20 grams (0.4 to 0.7 ounces).

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To put that into perspective...Tweety could have well been a goldfinch, eh!

Bottom right is a goldfinch...good golly gee!

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Rick goes thru one bag of Nyjer seed a week here--never mind his blackoil sunflower and mixed millet bird seeds. We don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, clean of all medications, and no pop...if one of our habits is to keep the wild birds in seed, so be it.

I figure us humans have done enough taking of this Earth that it is by far time we gave and gave back big time. We owe for our sins, eh!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[sourland]

See, Ralphie, you're a 'silly'.

 

[duluthralphie]

See, Ralphie, you're a 'silly'.

She was talking about you!

I like horderves. finches are more a horderve than an entrée......



Deb just to show you how normal I am, here is a picture of them out my window eating my seeds!



The gold finch is the yellow one hanging on the side of the tube feeder. Some people call them wild canary. Does that help?

 

[sourland]

Normal? Show the rest of the yard with the other 327 feeders.

 

[duluthralphie]

Normal? Show the rest of the yard with the other 327 feeders.

now you sound like my DW...

 

[perchie.girl]

Bwhahahahaha....

FWIW because of this thread I NOW have a humming bird feeder and a wild bird feeder......

 

[duluthralphie]

Bwhahahahaha....

FWIW because of this thread I NOW have a humming bird feeder and a wild bird feeder......

That's great.. Another couple hundred feeders and you will be just like us..

How are you doing on hummers this summer? I do not have many..

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: I have seen those here... I had to look them up to see what you were Talking about... San Diego are on the migratory path of a bunch of exotics as well. to and fro from south America...

I never wanted to put out feeders because I didnt want them to become "depenant" but the drought here has decimated the wild bird visitors... So I went ahead....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh and I have one of those tube feeders with the array of perches..... the finches pilfer.... and the Mourning doves walk around under neath and do alot of Burping....

they just stand there and wait for the sound of seed hitting the concrete...

deb

 

[duluthralphie]

Mourning doves will come to the platform feeders too. I get them once in a while. We have so many fields of grain here they really only come in winter, and if they are too dumb to fly south.