A New Feeder, Greatly Appreciated

We bought a new thistle feeder yesterday, and were happy to find it accepted by the Lesser Goldfinches right away.

Today, though, everybody else found it, and the goldfinches have been hanging around on the margins of avian society, waiting for their greedier cousins to take a breath.

It’s the ground feeders who profit most from the leaky design of our fancy new fodder station. It took the Gambel’s Quail no time at all to discover the overflow–and, of course, to bring the kids, too.