Re: goldfinch

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] goldfinch
• From: &* L* B* <j*@lewiston.com>
• Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:52:02 -0700
• References: <1a6.2723205a.2e467785@aol.com> <00fd01c47cb5$75b90100$05ec3544@newhvn01.in.comcast.net>

If you let your ornamental sunflowers go to seed, they clean those up too.
Every year I plan to cut them down when they start looking ratty, but the
finches move in & it's impossible to worry about with the show they put on.
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>


> Takes longer than that to clean mine!
>
> I'd seen them at the birdfeeder several years ago in winter.  But this is
> the first I saw them on a plant.  Agastache seed is fairly small like
> thistle seed and the flower stems are pretty sturdy, though they did sway
a
> bit with the birds on them.  Their chirping was quite different from that
of
> the other birds here.
>
> Kitty
>
> From: <Cersgarden@aol.com>
> > In a message dated 8/7/04 11:10:38 AM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
> >
> > << Since I know very little about birds, I guessed they
> > were goldfinches. >>
> >
> > Kitty, this is our state bird.  Oh, are they busy, chattering little
> birds,
> > love to build their nests in hanging pots and can do so within a few
hrs.
> >     Ceres

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