natural birdfeeders

Posted on | July 11, 2007 | 6 Comments

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The sunflowers are mostly past their prime.  For the past week, I’ve seen little yellow birds fly away from the sunflowers whenever I get too close.  One flew away when I went home for lunch today, but a couple stayed and I got these pictures from my car window.

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I believe this is the male

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and this is the female – based soley on the more brightly colored head in the first picture.

I have no idea what kind of birds these are (do you?), but I hope they stick around for awhile.  At least until the food supply runs out!

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Next year, I’m planting three four times as many seeds.

Thank you for all your nice comments on the Baby Surprise Jacket!  I don’t have buttons picked out yet (hopefully next week), and I do think I’ll see what it looks like with an applied i-cord edge.  I made the mistake of using a knitted cast-on, which made for a very stretchy neck that needs some correcting.  I will definitely have it done well before the shower, but in the meantime, I’ve been distracted by this:

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I may never leave the house again.

 

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6 Responses to “natural birdfeeders”

  1. Carrie
    July 11th, 2007 @ 2:28 pm

    Cute little birds. No idea what they are.
    Lovely roving too, what is it?

  2. Kate
    July 12th, 2007 @ 8:00 am

    Those are goldfinches.

  3. Nessa Z.
    July 12th, 2007 @ 10:57 am

    American Goldfinches – lovely little critters. We have them in plenty at our feeder. First one is the male – bright yellow. Second picture is probably a juvenile male that has not gotten full summer coloring. The females are a drab olive color with black markings and harder to notice. The males molt out the bright yellow and look much like the females during the winter.

  4. kmkat
    July 12th, 2007 @ 11:22 am

    Yup, goldfinches. And you are totally right about the male and female thing. Great pictures, btw. What they really love is thistle seed, although you should correctly be hesitant about planting those natural bird feeders.

  5. Donna
    July 16th, 2007 @ 11:57 am

    Ah, beautiful goldfinches. We have them here in SC, too. Strangely enough, they seem to prefer sunflower seeds to thistle seeds, at least the birds around here. We feed black oil sunflower seeds, and the goldfinches are all over them.

  6. Laura
    July 17th, 2007 @ 12:38 am

    Yep! Goldfinches! Put out thistle feeders in the winter – they’re such a sunny sight to see when the gray days arrive. I planted my sunflowers WAY late so we don’t even have a single blossom yet! That’s the only nice thing about planting way late… my garden is in its prime when everyone else’s is dying out. Last year I had morning glories and sunflowers until frost!