Day # 10 - Date : Monday, October 23, 2017

One of my regulars that is with us all year. Especially grandeur in the spring when the male American Goldfinch is at its best breeding colors. At this time of the year they are quite drab and getting drabbier by the day. Easy to distinguish the male and female in the spring, but now very difficult. I usually have 20 to 30 of them flitting from one feeding station to another during the day. Along with the Siskins and Redpolls (when the get here later on) they decimate my niger seed supply. When in the winter I may have 100 to 200 of these three birds it becomes a wee bit expensive to feed them. Right now niger seed is selling for $105 for 22.5 (50lb) at the Tractor Supply Store and I go through at least 3 bags in a good winter. I keep telling my daughter that the birds are eating her inheritance ;-)))

LittleRed (Ron)