A Big Bag of Nyjer

We've been given a huge bag of nyjer. I'm very grateful for it and so should the birds be but the problem now is to persuade them to eat it: we've only just finished the small packet of nyjer we bought back in April.

Anyway, things got off  to a good start with a male chaffinch sampling the food and he was quickly followed....

....by a couple of sparrows. We've had sparrows on the nyjer before but it didn't catch on as a 'must have' sparrow food.

Next at the feeder was a very smart blue tit but he didn't stay long. However things looked up....

....when a goldfinch arrived, one of the birds which is supposed to particularly like nyjer.

It's a start but things better warm up as otherwise we'll still be putting out nyjer in fifty years time.