If You Feed Them They Will Come - Attracting Colorful Birds to Your Belle Creek Home by Jennifer Prestwich REALTOR® - 03/18/12 10:50 AM
Goldfinches and other colorful birds are easy to attract- if you feed them right
For years, I have put out a birdfeeder with a mixture of wild birdseed in my Belle Creek backyard.  I have attracted robins and house finches, occasional chickadees and grackles.  But I never saw a single goldfinch.
Well, I figured, they aren’t found around here.  They are common when I visit family in Illinois and Wisconsin.  The climate here is much drier- goldfinches must not like it here.  How wrong I was!
Finch Facts
Goldfinches are sociable and will visit backyard feeders in hungry flocks of 30 … (3 comments)