A good excuse not to clean up
My sunflowers froze last week, but I just looked out the window and saw this finch snacking on the seeds.
This is the excuse I use to put off removing a lot of the dead flowers until early spring. Remember I don't use bird feeders. I do have to guess sometimes whether certain flowers have any seeds or fruits the birds will want, but the sunflowers are a no-brainer.
Photography lesson learned: The zoom lens doesn't do me any good if I have auto-focus on and try to use branches in the foreground to frame the photo. This is the clearest picture of the finch I got; the spruce branches are sharp and clear in every shot!
This is the excuse I use to put off removing a lot of the dead flowers until early spring. Remember I don't use bird feeders. I do have to guess sometimes whether certain flowers have any seeds or fruits the birds will want, but the sunflowers are a no-brainer.
Photography lesson learned: The zoom lens doesn't do me any good if I have auto-focus on and try to use branches in the foreground to frame the photo. This is the clearest picture of the finch I got; the spruce branches are sharp and clear in every shot!
Do you have any echinacea (coneflowers)? Goldfinches love them. My favorite photo of a goldfinch in my garden is of a one perched on an echinacea seedhead. If you don't have any echinacea, don't bother spending money buying plants. It's easy to grow from seed.
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I have one I'm trying to get started (that I did buy as a plant). I just wrote an entry about my efforts to grow things from seed! I planted the coneflower in the same area where I thought the mallow would do well, and so far it's barely hanging on. Gardening is definitely trial and error.
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Thank you for the advice on lens.. :p Oh.. I smiled when I read this.. The FINCH! lol! I just remember an incident with a finch.. I can't forget that..
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