The birds are back! I live in downtown Kitchener, next door to a construction site. For the past several years, there had been an excavation pond on the site. This was in the time between when they took down the existing houses in about 2021 and Spring 2024 when the construction started. During the years of the pond, lots of birds lived in the area. Not so many now but I hung a finch feeder on my balcony outside my window about a year ago.
All summer the American Goldfinches used it, as well as Black-capped Chickadees, Pine Siskin, and Downy Woodpecker. But in mid-September they stopped coming. I added a Brome Squirrel Buster Standard feeder for a Wild Bird Seed Mix that has lots of sunflower seed. The Chickadees returned. I also saw one Downy at the Finch Feeder. No Goldfinches till yesterday. I didn't see it at the feeder; it was singing in the trees next to the feeders.
You will note the two-tone colour. It's a male changing from winter to summer plumage.
The birds are back! I live in downtown Kitchener, next door to a construction site. For the past several years, there had been an excavation pond on the site. This was in the time between when they took down the existing houses in about 2021 and Spring 2024 when the construction started. During the years of the pond, lots of birds lived in the area. Not so many now but I hung a finch feeder on my balcony outside my window about a year ago.
All summer the American Goldfinches used it, as well as Black-capped Chickadees, Pine Siskin, and Downy Woodpecker. But in mid-September they stopped coming. I added a Brome Squirrel Buster Standard feeder for a Wild Bird Seed Mix that has lots of sunflower seed. The Chickadees returned. I also saw one Downy at the Finch Feeder. No Goldfinches till yesterday. I didn't see it at the feeder; it was singing in the trees next to the feeders.
You will note the two-tone colour. It's a male changing from winter to summer plumage.