Attracting Finches

Attracting Finches
The best way to attract finches to your backyard is to offer black oil sunflower seed in a tubular bird feeder and a bird bath (especially a heated bird bath during the winter months).

House Finches feed primarily on birdseed, with sunflower, nyger (thistle), white proso millet and canary seeds being their favorites. House finches will also help themselves to suet and nectar feeders.

Anyone who maintains a winter bird feeder well stocked with sunflower seeds will sooner or later be visited by the Purple Finch. The majority of the individuals will be the females and immature males while only about ten percent will be displaying the attractive rosy garb of the adult male.

The Pine Siskin is a highly social finch and can often be found at bird feeders in large flocks or mixed with winter flocks of American Goldfinches.

Finches, like all birds, are attracted to a water source. A heated bird bath will provide unfrozen water during the winter months and can be used all year long.