Today, I hung a finch feeder in the redbud tree that lives in the front yard. Excited to have a leg-up on the pesky neighbor “finch attracting competition”, I later found I only got about a 30-minute head start. Watching me with binoculars, they quickly followed suit and hung their feeder as well.
I tried the “hummingbird attraction competition” a few years back and lost miserably. Those little flippy birds can starve for all I care! But now, I’m hoping to do a bit better with the finch population. I got this GREAT feeder today (will share photos laters with bajillions of hungry little finches feeding around it), and bought the GOOD STUFF when it comes to finch seed. I figure with the coolest restaurant and the best food, they will come.
I had a few lookers, but no takers…and it wasn’t long until I found out why! First, if you were a bird, would you come close to this?
This is Perry, taking down the sign they planted right under the new finch feeder that read:
