American Goldfinch

Just tidying up loose ends here...

In our wanderings at the Nature Preserve on Saturday, we discovered that the birds frequenting our feeder are American Goldfinches. Washington’s State Bird. They are frequently spotted in the summer; less so in the spring, which may account for the slow start we got a few months ago with our feeder. Evidently they like Thistles – and I have no idea whether our seed is similar but it seems to fit the bill, so to speak.

The cats are cackling at them like mad. Even Maddie, who has always had vocalization problems, is learning, from Frik, how to produce the ‘birdy’ noise. And all that fuss inside the screen doesn’t bother these Goldfinches in the least. They are still chowing down, blissfully unaware that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”