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Helpful Tip! - Hang your thistle/nyjer feeder at least 15 feet from other feeders and water sources. Hang it 4-5 feet in the air in a brushy area if possible. Goldfinches like to visit feeders in large flocks, so having extra perching space around your bird feeder is important!

Goldfinches LOVE to bathe. We have some wonderful bird baths to select from.

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Attracting Goldfinches

Hungry flocks of sociable goldfinches are a delight to attract and watch in your own backyard.

Three species of goldfinches make their home in the U.S: The American Goldfinch, the brightest of the three, inhabits most parts of the U.S., generally moving to the northern states during the mating season and to the southern states during the colder winter months. The Lesser goldfinch and the Lawrence's goldfinch tend to inhabit the southwestern parts of the U.S.

Goldfinches feed primarily on weed seeds, and sometimes insects when they are available. For this reason, goldfinches love weedy fields, orchards, open woodlands, thickets and roadsides, especially if they contain patches of thistle and sunflowers.

Goldfinches will mate later in the season than most birds, usually late June to September. This is the time of year that weed seeds and thistle begin to ripen. You will usually see more activity at your thistle feeders during the late summer as they busy themselves with mating, building their nests and raising their young.

Goldfinches are sociable and will visit backyard feeders in hungry flocks of 30 or more. Thistle or Nyjer seed is the preferred food of Goldfinches. Provide your nyjer seed in specially designed Finch Bird Feeders.

Plant sunflowers, coreopsis, cosmos, service berry, birch, hornbeam, sweet gum, mulberry, hemlock, zinnias, elm and alder in your garden.

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