More Nyjer Woes

Look who came to enjoy breakfast with us on a glorious April morning - the first goldfinch we've seen for some time, and what a smart one! It was good of it to drop in but.... the wretched bird is feeding in the wrong place, in the mixed seed under its jackdaw- and gull-proof wire, in with all the....

....sparrows, chaffinches, dunnocks, tits and greenfinches. It's supposed to be on the nyjer feeder, which was a couple of feet over its head, eating the nyjer I spent so much on buying just to attract the goldfinches.

I feel like giving up, except that, as soon as the goldfinch flew off, hopefully to tell all its friends what super grub there is here, one of the....

....greenfinches flew up onto the nyjer feeder. I didn't know greenfinches ate nyjer. Anyway, they're welcome to it as the goldfinches don't deserve it.