We’ve been in our Lake Mendocino place a month now and have put up a few bird feeders. I was wandering around Walmart and spied some bird food and feeders. I don’t know much about what birds are around here or what they like to eat but figured that what was for sale would be a fairly good indicator, so picked up bag of black sunflower seed and a bag of thistle seed for the “little” birds. Already had a feeder for the sunflower seed so picked up a cylindrical one with smaller openings for the thistle seed.

That all worked ok, but a week later Sharlet saw a sock feeder for thistle seed. It had a picture of something like eight finches on it. I commented that many birds on a feeder must have been Photoshop’d in. Little did I know! After a few days for the “news” to get around, we’ve counted over 20 Finches on the sock with more flying around trying to get on. They eat through the thing in three days! As soon as the sock feeder showed up they ignored the other thistle seed feeder so I’ve converted it to a second sunflower seed feeder. Who’d a thunk?

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