Attracting Goldfinches

Attracting Goldfinches
The wonderful thing about goldfinches is how acrobatic they are. In the wild, they often feed as they cling upside down to the heads of sunflowers, moving next to a weed stalk where they eat standing upright. It is easy to attract goldfinches to a bird feeder. Goldfinches prefer hanging tubular feeders with places to perch at each outlet. As long as your feeders are filled with black oil sunflower seed, sunflower chips or nyjer (thistle) seed, your goldfinches will be happy. Goldfinches will also come to window trays and bird tables, where they will eat sorghum, millet, canary seed, cracked nutmeats and sunflower seeds. Goldfinches, 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.