Things you need to know about the GOLDFINCH!

[@AShotOfWildlife]

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[@Monicas__Sleepstream]

Goldfinches are so cute and funny when they make the "skreaming" noices and fighting in the air, when they battle for food on feeding places.

[@General_Confusion]

I'm in North Suffolk and i have about 50 of them coming to my feeders for sunflower hearts all day every day, they manage to wade through about a pound of seed a day from Five feeders. Really nice to see something doing well.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Yeah, they're one of the species that are locally doing quite well which is nice. It must be worth it if you carry on feeding them :)

[@General_Confusion]

@@pippajennings5856 The video reminded me to order another 20kg of sunflower hearts.

[@dermodsmyth7645]

We do the same thing and our winter garden is full of these beautiful birds...

[@denniswillson5990]

I have a pair coming into the garden in Lincolnshire. They seem to mostly like sunflower hearts too

[@zeusricochant7357]

They do like black seed. I haven't seen them in a while. First day I put black seed out they then came back. I'm in Scotland Aberdeenshire

[@coecludd]

Another lovely informative video. Many Thanks 😊

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@poppykitten6138]

London here, no garden. These guys appeared last year to my window feeders and visit many times a day. They’re currently teaching their beautiful youngsters to eat sunflower hearts. 😊

[@richardcollings9472]

Pair of these sit looking into my bedroom window at me if I have a lie in , sitting on the windowsills 😊

[@bronzewand]

I saw one in my South London garden yesterday just after subscribing to your channel! I have only ever seen one before, a few years ago. Made my day!

[@nickwebb9290]

Totally agree Liam, these are beautiful birds. Another super post, thank you 🙏

[@usha54]

Really enjoyed watching your videos.. GoldFinch is a beautiful bird

[@nor0845]

One thing I will tell you, is their song changes from area to area. Where I live now (Highland) the song includes a very pronounced sliding note…complete with accompanying head action! Sadly, like many songbirds they are seldom seen now. Beautiful little birds.

[@PaddyStubbs70]

Love these beautiful little birds and you've done them proud with this excellent video, Liam. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thanks Paddy and welcome to the channel. I have seen your previous comments and will (hopefully) get round to replying to all of them soon. Cheers!

[@spacecadetlottie6940]

Goldfinch are one of my favourite birds + are a sign of good luck for me 🍀 I wasn't aware a flock was referred to as a charm 🤔 🥰 Very awesome content sir! 😎 Thank you kindly 🙏

[@T1M6]

Practically the only bird that visits us every day ...its unusual to see other species.... Their squabbling on the feeders is so entertaining. I didn't know they live such a short time .

[@terencemeikle534]

Delightful video. Many thanks. Nice to hear of a species expansion in the UK, particularly these colourful and melodious little characters. 😀

[@Avrillo-gf7tx]

I live in central London and have a 2 large bird feeders outside. I’m lucky to have a Goldfinch or two visiting my feeder, I genuinely feel blessed watching them eat! Lovely birds.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Its great that you get to see them in central london. In norfolk I see them more in the city than the countryside and its nice that such a beautiful bird can survive in urban areas.

[@mrsmith4662]

What a lovely bird.

[@tonkysue207]

Gorgeous birds..always an honour to see them .lovely channel.💙uk

[@pauldurkee4764]

I can confirm in Wales, they are more common now than at anytime I can remember. They love the sunflower hearts and nyjer seed, we have had flocks of about 20 in a relatively small garden.

[@tinapeds4901]

Love these beautiful birds, they always come to my bird feeders in my garden for their favourite feast sunflower hearts.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Brilliant, they are really beautiful!

[@tinapeds4901]

Definitely 👍 and so is the Robin another one of my favourite birds. 😍

[@keithedmunds7536]

once again exellent video on a really attractive bird thanks for sharing

[@Yawnyaman]

Love the video, these birds are now very common in the area where I live and may be the most common finch. Don't forget the bronze chest patches!

[@kateparker6931]

The patches look like they are wearing a bikini top. Adds to their charm, I think.

[@celestenova777]

Lovely video. I used to see them in my garden in Scotland as well as the Bullfinch, another beautiful bird but now I'm living way down South I rarely see them. Great "charming' video, thank you.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you. In recent years I have noticed more of both species locally in Norfolk, which is nice.

[@Bertil_Lundin]

Thanks Liam for sharing another great "Things you need to know" video! Greetings and have a good day! // Bertil.

[@mazhayumveyilum5el5i]

Nice, yesterday i saw one lovely pair gold finch 🌹

[@AShotOfWildlife]

They are beautiful birds!

[@raymondpenalver7095]

As always Liam I've learnt alot of new facts again from another one of your great videos thanks so much 🙏

[@vetworker]

A regular visitor to my bird feeders. Probably my favourite garden bird because of their colour. A friend of mine who works for the RSPB told me their favourite food of all time is black sunflower seeds.

[@pauldurkee4764]

Have you tried Nyjer seed, it's known as a favourite food of goldfinches, and you might be lucky to get some siskins also.

[@vetworker]

@@pauldurkee4764 I have but not had much success with it I’m afraid. Maybe I should persevere.

[@pauldurkee4764]

@@vetworker Definitely keep trying, when I first tried with a nyjer feeder we had nothing for weeks, then all of a sudden goldfinches and siskins. 👍

[@vetworker]

@@pauldurkee4764 I will do 😊👍👍👍

[@Biffo1262]

They appeared in my garden about 6 years ago and stayed. We have a good sized feeding station, pond and small artificial stream. They most we see at any one time is about 15 to 20. Since the pond and stream have become established we have had in addition to the Golfinch, Goldcrest, Brambling, two breeding pairs of Bullfinches, Long Tailed Tits, Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Sparrowhawk who is a bit of a PITA, Dunnock, breeding Wrens, Chaffinch though less and less of them, Greenfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, all the usual LBJ's, Starlings (greedy beggars), Mistle Thrush, Red Kite overhead, numerous Buzzards, Magpies far too many, Grey Heron unfortunately for the fish, Jays, Willow Warbler and numerous Robins. My garden has an overgrown allotment at the back and we are situated in Salford near peat mossland but actually in an urban setting. I put the variety down to the feeding station, pond and shallow feeder stream which is very popular in hot weather. The overgrown allotment is full of impenetrable brambles which has attracted many breeding birds, notably the Bullfinch and the Goldfinch. We have a mix of conifers and well established cherry trees. Our garden has become an absolute delight but it costs a small fortune in sunflower heat, peanuts, niger, millet, mixed seed and fat balls. They eat better than we do.

[@ripmurdock6975]

Wow, very impressive variety of wildlife.

[@riktye8800]

Today on a very wet day in Salford, Manchester a Goldfinch sat out in the rain on a high branch on our cherry blossom tree. Literally like he was king of the world ( the street usually dominated by magpies) . He was with another one that was sat in neighboring tree. It’s the first time I have seen them here in Salford.

[@mandyhernon2238]

A lovely enjoyable video and great to hear their song. I hope I haven't thought every nice song is Robins.

[@debrandw246]

I saw the first one I ever saw before last week. Beautiful bird from Wales, UK

[@rocky5755]

Super video. Well done.

[@peteryoung4957]

Hi Liam. Another great video. I agree with you, IMO Goldfinches are my favourite bird to see.

[@MelgaardBosch]

i have up to 70 gold finches in my garden here in Denmark, they devour my sunflower heart feeders. need to refill daily. its pretty hard on the wallet. but lovely bird to watch.

[@lyestrance]

GoldFinch is a real artist .he is real singer bird not like others bird! goldfinch make release several melody each year (he mix and remix and compose and editing note and pitch and more) he do too mixing and mastering . he do harmony for each note and each note put it in mode like musician (i can say he do it well better than muscician) i studied GoldFinch for 5 years he is amazing creature incredible . i learn much musical lesson by GoldFinch. (he make too effect for his melody) maybe you will not believe me. it's less too much to talk about this bird. he is just amazing! take care about this bird! thanks for your video. i wish you best all!

[@jankitteringham8483]

I adore these birds. I have many in my garden , they love the sunflower hearts. One actually gets into the squirrel proof feeder and lounges whilst eating. I They like the bird bath, so funny! 🥰🇬🇧

[@Tascountrygirl]

Thank you so much. I live in Tasmania and was delighted to watch this beautiful video because when I moved to my present address four years ago, there were and still are many pairs of nesting goldfinches each year. I found a beautiful woven goldfinch nest in a tree on my front grassed area which I kept after the birds had left, as an object of beauty and bird creativity. I am a bird lover and belong to Birdlife Australia which supports, educates and advocates for important bird issues in this country eg keeping mudflats for our migrating birds which fly on the great eastern flyway or by another flyway to the north pole to breed and back again.

[@frenzyviz6296]

I get a few of these in my garden. I feed sunflower hearts.

[@ANiMALFRiENDS_GOLDMAN]

I copied the little beeping noise and they replied. Within one week they started adding whistles and funny noises. They evolve if you speak to them. They test you out by making crazy noises to see if tou can copy. When they realise you are definitely speaking to them they get so excited and jump around as if they have waited for us tontake this beautiful step of love towards our beloved bird sisters and brothers. Even kites respond to me and circle around my head. They love the human who speaks to them and anyone can and should do this it makes you so happy and the birds go mad. You will see how the while area of Bird sounds will change in volume and styles. We evolve through love we devolve through hate and death and eating carcasses. Only love will set you free. Divine unconditionally love for ALL BEINGS

[@Jaded-Wanderer]

Excellent

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@jimramsey8887]

Brilliant and Educational. Much appreshiation Thanks very much.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@Rootythe1st]

I really enjoy your videos. What I like is that you get straight into the facts and they are the perfect length for my short attention span and cover the main facts. Thank you

[@sidensvans67]

Lovely birds . Thank you .

[@Philiia]

Thanks for your videos. I have learnt more from you than from my well thumbed bird book😀

[@Calvin.The.Unfindable]

i live in a flat - but i have a beautiful big holly bush right outside my bay window, i get a few birds at my window feeders, but on rare occasions i will get a goldfinch stay around for an hour or so flitting around in the holly, i must be on some sort of route through for them! they are stunning birds

[@philiptaylor7902]

Great vid Liam. It was good to learn where the collective name “charm” came from. I didn’t think it could be from their behaviour, they may look beautiful but they are tough little birds!!

[@iainmacvicar5858]

I adore their song in the spring. lovely vid, thankyou.

[@lifeisbutadreamsodreamon]

A lovely video recommendation in my dash :) I find their flight pattern adorable, and when they do their waffle board singing at the same time is 😍

[@OldSkoolWax]

I'd love you to do one on redpolls and siskins, they've started coming to my feeder and I adore them

[@philiptaylor7902]

You are very lucky. We have had the occasional Siskin or Redpoll on our feeder in recent years but none so far this winter. They are absolutely fantastic little birds.

[@OldSkoolWax]

@@philiptaylor7902 I get about 8 redpolls showing up like clockwork at 8am and 4 siskins. great to watch with the coffee before heading to the office

[@dengueberries]

I think what I love most about goldfinches is the short high pitch chirps when it's flying or foraging. First you hear them, then you look up the canopy of a tree to reveal them hopping between branches. You can even see them in central metropolitan areas, which is a fantastic change from the typical rock pigeons.

[@sundancer014]

I'm in New Zealand and often wondered where else Goldfinch have been naturalised in the world.Thank you for your most informative item.I have enjoyed a few other of your items,so please keep them coming.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you. I live that you are the other side of the world and have enjoyed something I narrated in my tiny spare room! Cheers

[@kevinlewis3029]

I love seeing these birds while I'm out and about. I really like small birds Blue tits, robins sparrows they all have great characters.

[@31Blaize]

Saw some of these little beauties taking the seeds off the ragwort growing in my garden last autumn, their song is indeed lovely. They always look a bit too exotic to be a British bird!

[@24jonbarnes]

Love your videos, keep it up

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@joshuarosen6242]

I definitely did learn something. We have a pair of goldfinches visiting our garden to eat teazel seeds. They are beautiful birds.

[@helenmudge3223]

Thank you for your videos, I've got addicted to them. They're great, and even tho I've been a bird lover for yonks you still manage to teach me something new each time!

[@G1McK]

Working in Kuwait I just saw one land a couple feet infront of me on the table. It’s awesome seeing one on his holidays

[@susanlavin5295]

Thanks so much for your beautiful videos 🌻

[@pip393]

The American Goldfinch is a very pretty bird along with our Cardinals; but our woodpeckers especially the Pileated is a magnificent thing of beauty.

[@buzzabuzza3494]

I’m glad I’ve subscribed too your channel, so informative, educational and interesting.👏👏👏

[@ukwildlife]

Excellent video as always, I do love a goldfinch

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@mairnealachamu]

I love these birds. Their name in Irish is Lasair Choille, which literally translates as Flame of the Forest, which I think is just prefect for them.

[@shiningxie1395]

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[@jacquelineithell307]

I have about 4 come to my garden each day and am amazed at how quickly they have become to trust me absolutely 💯 magnificent

[@jonesyacdc]

The robin here practically feeds out my hand, and if a blackbird comes he fight's them. So funny. Robins are hard as nails😂❤

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Robins are brilliant little characters!

[@stupidhandles]

Apparently the only British species that will fight to the death to defend territory!

[@gaynormainwaring1853]

My mum used to call Robins the thugs of the garden.

[@MyKharli]

Out of all the birds i see in SW Scotland its only Goldfinches and red kites that are on the up . They love any seed heads especially teasels , dandelions and daisies . I think they like burdocks too but not seen them on them .

[@paulwarner5674]

Beautiful.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@paulwarner5674]

​@@AShotOfWildlifeI'm ecstatic. I have Goldfinches in my garden here in Cheltenham Glos. So far only seen 5 but wow what a site. Such vibrant colours. What and where should I feed them to make them happy.

[@gregorysagegreene]

I saw these very occasionally in open farmland back in Tasmania as a kid, more particularly where there was the odd heavily-foliaged low shrub conifer. And it was a joy to track these beautiful birds' flight back to a bush, and then peer in thru' the branches to find a sweet little cup of tiny eggs.

[@Tascountrygirl]

Hi I am another Tasmanian, previously married to a Yorkshireman from Dewsbury whom I met in Sydney. I love the goldfinches in my cul de sac street off a main road. It is relatively quiet and many trees in each front grass area have a nesting pair at breeding time. They are a joy to see and hear. I adored watching a charm with their young ones alighting on dandelion stalks, bending them over and stripping the seeds to eat. This is when my back garden has overgrown a bit probably my choice to see the goldfinches.

[@witchelm3734]

I have goldfinches at my bird feeders every year here in Scotland. I put niger seed and sunflower hearts for them. Beautiful birds 😊

[@DrGranfouzi]

I'm a big lover of the goldfinches. They are very smart and they have personality. I had one as a pet. And he was my only friend.

[@cara1067]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@Spiritueli]

really like your channel. as im from europe, i can compare my birdies with your descriptions and see the diffferences ...

[@Edward-rw3kq]

Absolutely love them....I see them on my dog walk through the sand dunes at the local beach....had my first gold finches in my garden during lockdown and I let the garden go wild but beautiful.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

There seem to be quite a number of goldfinches that live on the same (south facing) hillside as us, but I see them in the garden only infrequently, visiting the feeders but sometimes apparently "hunting" under the eaves, perching on the telephone wires then darting to the very top of the wall where it meets the roof. I've been told they're looking for spiders. (Plenty of those !) Perhaps we only see them when there's a new brood to feed ?

[@jess53nz]

They are so sweet but rather shy here. I never get very close. Never heard the song before!

[@jonathanskinner2343]

Another great video

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@missapippin9020]

Thank you Liam. Goldfinch are beautiful and their song is beautiful too.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you :)

[@mysteryincracing]

Great vid, have recently had a pair visiting my garden, beautiful birds

[@SkylarkFields]

We get these in our garden. They are the most likely bird to be seen on our feeders or sitting in a tree. I was interested about the slight differences between male and female. If we are out and about and we can't decide what a bird, partly hidden in a tree or bush is, we just say it's a goldfinch - and we are usually right! 😉

[@danvenables4935]

Have regular goldfinches visiting my garden and I see them when out. I made a comment on your previous song thrush video, curious to see your reply as I wondered where and how you got such great footage of the thrushes. I've had a few visiting my garden this winter which was a nice surprise but they don't seem to stick around for long at all- I'd love to know where to look to see them out in the wild.

[@stevenperry7493]

A great video Liam as usual ,we have a large flock in our garden of up to 10 to 20 through out the year ,& with the song & colour they are a real joy to see .😊

[@helenamcginty4920]

Seeing the goldfinch feeding on a seed head shows the importance if not pulling what are considered weeds or rushing to tidy a garden in autumn.

[@fairycherub1]

I'm in Essex and I get lots of these in my garden. They go crazy for sunflower hearts . I can't keep the feeders filled quick enough

[@ofeliawotsits6080]

I had never seen one until we moved to our current house. Now we get about 60 or more flying around and they just love sunflower seed. The bird table gets crowded with 25 to 30 of them sometimes. They are social, but are so funny in that they bicker with each other when feeding, and spend too much time sometimes shoving each other out of the way in order to get the seed. They twitter very loudly up in the trees in large groups, so it’s obvious when they are around. I read that a long time ago they used to be caught and caged because they are so pretty. They are by far the commonest bird by us, and Sparrows are the most rare!

[@Spacey7]

Wow I haven't seen a Goldfinch for such a long time. They don't visit my bird feeder. I live on the outskirts of a town very close to countryside so you'd think I'd see these birds around?

[@pauldurkee4764]

I would advise you to try putting up a nyjer feeder. Once they find out, it's like a magnet for them. If you feed them through the summer, they even bring the newly fledged young along.

[@Spacey7]

@@pauldurkee4764 awesome thank you 😊

[@xhogun8578]

I love seeing goldfinches on my bird table.

[@Louis-SRT6.4L]

We get many sightings and have had Goldfinches nesting in our fir tree in our garden for several years now. We have group of about four. They also take it in turn drinking water from our large bird bath but one is always on watch for predators like cats. Very beautiful, social and intelligent birds.

[@jondeegan9410]

Thank you was really interesting and informative

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you very much!

[@clareshaughnessy2745]

I was born and brought up in urban Merseyside. Didn’t see a goldfinch for the first fifteen or more years of my life. Now, however, the goldfinch seems to have overtaken sparrows and starlings as the most ubiquitous birds around

[@mobilephil244]

Great vid. I live in a large "village" in Bedfordshire and there are several huge squadrons of these visiting everyones' feeders every day. Strange to see these in Bedfordshire - we would not normally expect to see anything so colourful (Bedfordshire is Britain's most boring county!). They are really messy eaters with the sunflower seeds and drop a lot for the ground-rummaging birds to feed on. We find they are the shyest birds in the garden, others, iincluding the wagtails, are used to humans and don't bother flying off unless you get too close.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

There are quite a few cool places in Bedfordshire, the RSPB headquarters in sandy is probably my favourite spot. My nan lived in the town until fairly recently and had quite a lot of birds at her feeders. I suppose it is land locked though, and there isn't much variation in the landscape to attract different species. Cheerd

[@sallybutler1005]

My late grandads favourite birds ❤

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

Beautiful little film, with some interesting new info for me. I love these little fellows, one of my very top favourite wild birds. Have you covered the siskin?

[@curiousuranus810]

Lovely post, as usual, but play the bird's calls for longer!

[@xt225]

Good stuff 👍👍

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@Indigenous-English-Man]

I live on a council estate in the north of England and I’ve got them feeding from my garden feeders.

[@Hertog_von_Berkshire]

Here in east Berkshire, Goldfinches are quite common though they tend to be seen in ones and twos, unlike Chaffinches and Blue Tits which appear in larger flocks. Thanks for the video. I'm sorry to learn of their short lifespan.

[@theirisheditor]

I love watching the parent goldfinches feed their young using the Nyger feeder, i.e. grabbing some seed and then flying to the nearby jouvenile to feed beak to beak and repeat. I haven't managed to film them doing this yet. The clip from 1:18 is from footage I captured a few years ago in our backyard, the CD was an unsuccessful attempt at deterring crows. I've since enclosed the peanut feeder between two 14" wire hanging baskets and have a separate Nyger feeder plus a window feeder with sunflower hearts for the goldfinches.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Hi Sean, thanks for marking your footage as creative commons, you will see a link to your original video in the description as per the licence. I do mark my own footage as creative commons as well (what goes around comes around and all that) Isn't it great when they feed them, even though the youngsters can see exactly where the food is coming from. I cant wait for the first youngsters of this year! Did you find this video by your own accord or did KZbin notify you that I had used a clip of yours?

[@theirisheditor]

I came across this video after watching your video on Chaffinches, a video that appeared on the KZbin homepage recommendations. KZbin didn't notify me of reuse and I think this is the first I've seen of anything I uploaded reused. Whenever the weather improves, I might try filming the birds again especially as we get a lot of Chaffinches, Siskins and Greenfinches now. Despite all the Chaffinches we get, I haven't seen any dancing impressions yet. If I get around to uploading again, it'll be CC reuse allowed also. The Goldfinches remain my favourite especially with what looks like the parents teaching teaching their juveniles how to forge for food in the wild by finding the nearest Nyger feeder. 😁

[@cestparti7577]

Such beautiful birds ! Interested in what you say about the word Charm/Sum do you have references and or more on this ?

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Here you go :) Thanks. www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u23/downloads/pdfs/goldf_01_2012_low_res.pdf

[@cyberlizardcouk]

goldfinches seem to have become more common around chesterfield around a decade or so ago and their numbers seem to have exploded. in the summer months they often perch on our phone cable out the front of our bedroom and they always sound so happy and chirpy (no pun intended).

[@grachilly6969]

Definitely my favourite birds love seeing them in the garden. Can I ask what the cd is for by the feeder does it stop the crows and jackdaws?

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Hello, that footage isn't mine, but I suspect that it is for keeping crows or potentially birds of prey at bay.

[@sharoncaldecott3969]

Lovely video! 😆We have them feeding on Niger seed feeders in our garden.