Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 12:27:33 GMT
Goldfinches are cute birds Twinkle. I remember as a young lad in the 1960's visiting our local park aviary to look at Goldfinches, Greenfinches and Canaries. Up until the early 1990's I had never seen one in the wild. Now we have flocks of 15 to 50 visiting Sunflower heart feeders. I used to feed Niger seed but they stopped feeding on it, preferring the sunflower hearts.
A few years ago we had a pair that successfully nested in our Cotoneaster berry shrub that grows 3/4 of the way up the front of our house. We could watch the nest from our front window, a tiny thing under the leaves right at the end of a branch. I have spotted a pair visiting the same climber a couple of times during this last week, unfortunately although its an evergreen, it does lose a lot of leaves in winter and it is not until the end of May that the new leaves provide enough cover for a nest.
A few years ago we had a pair that successfully nested in our Cotoneaster berry shrub that grows 3/4 of the way up the front of our house. We could watch the nest from our front window, a tiny thing under the leaves right at the end of a branch. I have spotted a pair visiting the same climber a couple of times during this last week, unfortunately although its an evergreen, it does lose a lot of leaves in winter and it is not until the end of May that the new leaves provide enough cover for a nest.