Finch Bird Feeder

What kind of feeder and seed should i use? I’m building a birdhouse next week to place out there too. In my yard right so far ive seen robins, mourning doves, chickadees and crows, etc with blue jays and cardinals during the winter. i also have goldfinches and hummingbirds during the summer but i’m going to wait to get them feeders because its starting to get cold and im sure they’ve already began to migrate south.
I only have one feeder out right now, but the seed my dad bought is really cheap and generic and i want to replace it with something else that will attract more birds.

Goldfinches Eating Thistle-Niger Seed – zoomed out Goldfinches birds bird feeder Eating Thistle-Niger Seed Video taken be me.

What kind of feeder and seed should i use? I’m building a birdhouse next week to place out there too. In my yard right so far ive seen robins, mourning doves, chickadees and crows, etc with blue jays and cardinals during the winter. i also have goldfinches and hummingbirds during the summer but i’m going to wait to get them feeders because its starting to get cold and im sure they’ve already began to migrate south.

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This yellow finch was determined to drink from the yellow plastic flowers on the hummingbird feeders. I now feed the finches in the front yard and enjoy my hummingbirds out my family room window and the finches from our front of our home

This video was uploaded from an Android phone.

At about 38 seconds a bird comes and lands on my hand to eat seeds

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American Goldfinches & female purple finch – This feeder has been through a lot, the Squirrels & Racoons chewing on it trying to get the seeds out , as you can see here. lol I Even caught a moose stealing the seeds, one of the reasons a perch is missing on this feeder. The feeder is still useable even in it’s current state. I have other feeders. I took these type of feeders down & replaced them with a Gazeebo type of feeders, as I noticed one of the female Goldfinches has an eye infection. That is one of the reasons why, these types of feeders are actually not that great for the birds. Because they have to stick their heads in a hole to retreive the seeds, they can either contract another birds eye infection or give one to other birds from their own infected eye. I clean my feeders often, which is something everyone should be doing, if they have feeders in their yard. It’s recomended that if you do see a sick bird at your feeders, to either remove the bird feeders all together, or use open source feeders. Some suggest taking the feeders down all together for a week or so & when you put them back out, monitor the birds in case a sick bird is present again. Its so sad. ( History: Where did the disease start? Conjunctivitis was first noticed in House Finches during the winter of 1993-94 in Virginia and Maryland. The disease later spread to states along the East Coast, and has now been reported throughout most of eastern North America, as far north as Quebec, Canada, and as …

This little goldfinch, with finch eye disease, will probably die from starvation or will be killed by a predator since it can no longer see. I shot this video with my iPhone so you can see how close I was able to get. Imagine if I were a predator. Please clean your feeders, it helps the disease from spreading. www.birds.cornell.edu