Goldfinch

Recoup · Guru

Goldfinch

KJB · Guru

Covid Good News Story.......if we had not been home this year this little fella (Eric..) would have died ,.We found him as a baby , on deaths doorstep, and nursed him back to health. Now he lives outdoors foraging but comes in for a nibble out of my hand morning and night. Great mates and great to see him healthy and being able to use his instincts survive in the wild . 2020 Eric Nov. .jpg i.jpg

Greg 1 · Guru

Great story about Eric. Always like to encourage the Maggie's and kookaburras around. We have a magpie family visit regularly.

oldbloke · Guru

Lesley (SWMBO) has been feeding the teenage Magpies mince meat for weeks.

Cupie · Guru

Never heard of or seen them. But then I'm not much of a bird watcher though I do feed a range of birds from time to time.

https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/european-goldfinch

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

We occasionally see gold finches at the Jerrabomberra Wetlands in Canberra.
While the odd introduced species may seem to be of little impact, they are competing with the natives for food & nesting sites. However there are two natives that are becoming pests & are being found where they haven't been in the past. They are the rainbow lorrikeet & the noisy miner.

The greatest threat to our birds is habitat loss - both from agriculture & mining with quite a few bird species on the edge of extinction.

There is a free app that you nomads can download to keep track of the birds you see on your travels. It is called eBird.

Recoup · Guru

Warren-Pat_01 wrote:
We occasionally see gold finches at the Jerrabomberra Wetlands in Canberra.
While the odd introduced species may seem to be of little impact, they are competing with the natives for food & nesting sites. However there are two natives that are becoming pests & are being found where they haven't been in the past. They are the rainbow lorrikeet & the noisy miner.

The greatest threat to our birds is habitat loss - both from agriculture & mining with quite a few bird species on the edge of extinction.

There is a free app that you nomads can download to keep track of the birds you see on your travels. It is called eBird.

It's nice to see that are still some around , talk about pests ,we had the black birds, the hole neighbourhood was fed up with them , the noise and mess was just to much .