Best. Finch. Feeders. Ever.

This year we had quite a few volunteer sunflower plants appear in our yard.


These grew on their own, from seeds that dropped from last year's plants.


The tallest plant was this one - over 11 feet high. It has more than 100 flowers and buds.


That's a lot of seeds...

We had other volunteer sunflowers, but they didn't grow nearly as tall as this one.

Two of the other sunflowers grew to about 7 feet high. They each had a single ginormous seed head, measuring over 10" across - larger than a dinner plate.

The other smaller sunflower plants are drying and setting seeds, too.

LESSER GOLDFINCH (male) on SUNFLOWERS

House Finches and Lesser Goldfinches have been feasting for a couple of weeks now.

We have had over 20 birds on the sunflowers at one time.

HOUSE FINCHES on SUNFLOWERS

The Lesser Goldfinches are still nibbling the sunflower leaves (below).

SUNFLOWER LEAF NIBBLED by L.GOLDFINCHES

Planting sunflowers is an easy way to feed birds.

-- Natural food

-- No pesticides or chemicals

-- No refilling
-- Way cheaper than Nyjer Thistle
-- No cleaning of feeders
-- Multiple seed heads minimize       squabbling and "bully birds"

-- No one goes hungry if we forget to feed

-- Best of all - inexpensive or FREE!

"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today."
~ Indian proverb