How to Attract Goldfinches to Your Garden - Best Bird Feeder Foods

How to attract Goldfinches to your garden tutorial. This video looks at the top 3 bird feeder foods that attract European Goldfinches to my garden. If there are Goldfinches in your local area, these bird feeder foods (especially the top 2) are very effective in getting the birds to visit your garden.
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[@berthendrikx]

Very nice video of the Goldfinches. Have a lovely weekend.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed watching and have a great week ahead.

[@VladimirAstapenkov]

Squirrels come to my garden every morning, I feed them every morning, though I don’t really want to get up at 6 o’clock in the morning, but I have to. They are already used to me. They very love monkey nuts . I don't have a camera with a good resolution yet, but as soon as I buy it I will post a video on KZbin . Thank you for your interesting videos . Nature is beautiful !

[@MyBirdingYear]

Let me know when you post your video of the squirrels! Glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching.

[@VladimirAstapenkov]

@@MyBirdingYear Sure 🙂

[@jeandixon586]

Your garden is a hit for these little ones! We don't have goldfinches where I am, but most of my feathered visitors pick the sunflower hearts out of their seed table before anything else 💯

[@MyBirdingYear]

I think if I was only allowed one feeder, I'd fill it with sunflower hearts. With black sunflower seeds the birds tend to grab a seed and fly off to break it open but with sunflower hearts they stay at the feeder much longer - from a filming perspective and just for the pleasure of seeing the birds, sunflower hearts win every time.

[@mrvillan6951]

I tried Nyger seed and sunflower hearts for years. Not one goldfinch was seen. So I gave up. Then I lazily left a bucket at the end of the garden near the feeders. Heavy rain filled the bucket and one day I saw three goldfinches drinking and bathing. I replenished the Nyger feeder and three weeks later there are at least ten goldies on the feeders every day. Reading up on it, they need a lot of water because of the seeds they eat. It was mid-summer when the arrived so I assume they were struggling to find fresh water. I refill it often now.

[@VideoNatur]

Great explanation to deed the birds in a garden!!! Kind regards, Rolf

[@VladimirAstapenkov]

If you remember, I asked you about the morning birds? So I figured it out, it was grown blackbirds . Thank you for your help .

[@MyBirdingYear]

No problem, glad you figured it out and thank you for your support.

[@scormack56]

Thank you it sounds peaceful and the birds are well catered for. I will bear in mind when buying.

[@marysmyth8288]

Gloriously peaceful , I am a bird watcher ,love this clip. ✍️💖 Mary Canada 🇨🇦

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed the video Mary, thanks for watching!

[@CharismaticPlanet3822]

what a beautiful bird Golf Finches are. The sounds are so relaxing. Great effort.

[@alexjw2k4]

Thanks for the video. Goldfinches are one of my favourites.

[@MyBirdingYear]

One of my favourites too! Thanks for watching, it's much appreciated.

[@1890atrs]

Very colorful bird !!

[@FollowThomas]

Such a beautiful bird. I used to rescued one of these Goldfinches with broken wing in my childhood. Now I live in Florida and our American Goldfinch here looks totally different.

[@MyBirdwatchingWorld]

Ah, another one of my favourite birds. Great video!

[@MyBirdingYear]

One of my favourites too! Glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching!

[@davidhoban3825]

Sunflower seed hearts for me. They don't make a mess unlike the black sunflower seeds and the goldfinches love them.. Lovely video

[@GeorgiexoxoTV]

What stunning imagery! What camera do you have? My goldfinches simply devour their sunflower hearts! Occasionally they'll have nyger seeds and be tempted by peanut pieces. Such special birds I adore them xoxo

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Most of my filming is one with a Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 - the 60x zoom is great for filming birds!

[@marvinscampion5961]

Heyyyy 🤗 Thank you for a beautiful upload.. I actually got greenfinches and blue tits into my garden with that feeder...with Nyger seeds in .. I often hear goldfinches toward to back lane of my Garden ..also high up in a lime tree....but still trying to attract them 🤞 Thank you...for looking after the wonderful birds... .that nature has blessed us with..👍 Keep safe, smiling, healthy and be steady 🤗 Keep safe

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thanks Marvin, appreciate your comment. Interesting to hear you have greenfinches and blue tits feeding on Nyger seeds, here it's almost only Goldfinches, although by coincidence, I did find a clip earlier of a coal tit feeding on the seeds. Hope your goldfinches visit soon!

[@trevorstyles5576]

Great clip as always. Only saw a goldfinch once in the garden and that was in the spring of this year. I did wonder if it was just passing through the area and stopped to refuel.

[@yesidtac7863]

Linda ave

[@alihart]

I always thought sunflower hearts were what were inside the black sunflower seeds so never got both. Would you say there's a big difference, or do they sometimes just enjoy the challenge of opening the seeds? 😉

[@MyBirdingYear]

You are right about sunflower hearts being inside the black sunflower seeds. Where I am I find the birds prefer the sunflower hearts - maybe it's because they can feed more quickly as they don't have to remove the outer shell.