The bullfinch is not always made welcome when he comes to gardens
at the time of fruit-buds. And there are seasons and places in
which he would be welcomed--but comes not. We know a way to attract
bullfinches, even to gardens in towns. You should take from a
hedge-side a few plants of the wild geranium, and set them in your
town garden--bullfinches are wonderfully fond of their seeds. We have
known the birds to find out the geranium plants in a town garden where
bullfinches had never been seen before. To this garden they would
come regularly, but always in the early morning. They are cheerful
feeders--they live on insects and larvæ, as well as on many kinds of
seeds and berries, in the spring feeding their young on seeds which
have been carefully softened.
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