Avoid deadheading the spent blooms of coneflowers, as these provide seeds in the colder months. Coneflower seeds are a vital source of food for goldfinches.

Encourage more delightful goldfinches to visit your yard by growing plants they love, including this native flower that acts ...

Bird experts share their best tips on how to attract goldfinches to your garden. Knowing how to attract goldfinches to your backyard is about more than setting up any old bird feeder. These gorgeous ...

The American goldfinch is the most interesting and entertaining of all birds to observe this time of year. When other birds have started to molt and become a bit bedraggled in the process, the male ...

I am a creature of habit and I always write my column on a Thursday. On this particular morning, I find myself luxuriating in an unexpected, but most welcome, deviation from my normal routine. A huge ...

A Red-Bellied Woodpecker comes in for a landing on this tube feeder filled with hot pepper suet bits (no squirrels, raccoons, or bears here). A female House Finch and a male Northern Cardinal are ...

As we get further into March, we search for signs of the coming spring. The vernal equinox is March 20, about two weeks away. We see changes happening long before and after this date. Sometimes we ...

House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...