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Originally Posted by redshifter
I'm also a casual birder, ID'ing the local birds around the feeders I put up. I now have only a sunflower seed and a thistle seed feeder. The house finches, goldfinches, and the chickadees like them, but the sparrows not so much. This is a good thing because when I had a feeder with a mix of seed, it was dominated by literally dozens of house sparrows (VERY prevalent around here), and the associated mess.
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I have a ground level feeder that holds about 150 lbs of cheap bird seed that is accessed not only by the birds but also by the mammals: rabbits, jack rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, pack rats, round-tailed squirrels, and the javelinas. We have plenty of house finches and desert sparrows but I'm not sure if I've ever seen goldfinches or chickadees. I also have what we call "the pond", which is shallow concrete with a small spillway on one end and constant water feed on the other. I built this several years ago when I got so upset seeing the baby Gambel's quail drown in the pans of water we used to use.