Discover simple tips and tricks to attract more goldfinches to your yard, from selecting the right plants to offering their ...

What Does a Cassin’s Finch Look Like? Male Cassin’s finches are hardly streaked, lending them a vibrant plumage. “To me, the Cassin’s finch always seems brighter,” says Dusty Downey, conservation ...

The seed within thistle socks can become quite wet with rain, so only use large ones during periods when you have enough finches to consume the contents in a few days.

Finches, including American goldfinches, are partial to eating from a sock feeder, which allows them to hold on and pluck out the thistle or other seeds, much like they do in nature. (Getty Images ...

DEAR JOAN: Last year I bought a finch feeder and some Nyjer thistle for the goldfinches that visit my yard. I hung the feeder high up in my English holly tree where the birds were perching. Most ...

On my next trip to the garden store, I purchased a finch feeder and a bag of tiny black nyjer thistle seeds. Sure enough, in a few days I had brightly colored yellow finches in view from my ...

However, the Niger thistle seed we usually purchase commercially and put out for the finches is not from a thistle plant. Niger thistle (Guizotia abyssinica) is not related to thistle in any way.

If you feed birds, you know how much goldfinches love thistle seeds. The seeds in your feeder aren’t even true thistles. They are seeds from the unrelated African nijer thistle.

House Finch ad Goldfinch Sally Isaacson Exotic finches, often kept in cages, have escaped, forming feral flocks around the country. The nutmeg mannikin (aka scaly-breasted munia or spice finch), ...

Siskins and redpolls prefer thistle, while the rest of our possible visitors seek out sunflower seeds -- add some of these seeds to your feeders and you just might attract them to your yard.

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