<\/a><\/p>\nFor a few years now I’ve had a good crop of small bird visitors including chickadees, finches and little birds I call “the puffballs”. I love to watch them out the window. I have two squirrel proof feeders that are designed for smaller birds; one is filled with a seed mix designed for finches and one is nyjer thistle. All of the birds ignore the nyjer thistle unless the other one is empty.<\/p>\n
If there is a certain type of bird you’d like to attract check into what type of feeders and food are appropriate. Scout out the best location in your yard or place the feeders for your year round viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wednesday April 2nd 2014 marks the inaugural visit of the American Goldfinch to my garden. Or should I say the first sighting? I didn’t even dare to go outside to take the picture so you can see the effects of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,368],"tags":[343,434,59,156],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}