birds often take several weeks to find and use a new feeder. a lot of different birds seem to be attracked by bright colors and fluttering objects. Try hanging a few ribbons or ballons or even a couple wind chimes out. If there are any chickadees around your area they will probably be the first to show up. they are very curuous and one of the most friendly of birds. When i go out to fill the feeders or cleanup i whistle and chirp and they come flying in to see what is happening. another thing that attracks birds is water.anything from a bowl or pan changed daily if it freezes up or anymore the heated bird baths are a lot cheaper and can be placed on a railing or even hung from a rafter or mounted on a pole. and they are pretty energy efficient i hang my feeders close to a tree or shurbs it seems the birds fly into the tree or bushes first then to the feeders or water. and mine seem to do best 5 or 6 foot from the ground. my water bath came with a clamp to mount from railing or a 3 foot pole to sit in on in the yard. it sits outside the kitchen window close to the feeders.

That is quite the finch feeder you have the link to! It looks great. The only problem I had with a sock feeder was rain. I felt I couldn't leave the seed there, too much chance of it rotting. I swear by the two finch feeders I have: both made by the "Perky Pet" company. One is a plain plastic finch feeder with the tiny portals, and regular perches; the other is one made specially for goldfinches, on which they have to hang upside down. Only goldfinches have ever used their feeder, and the goldfinches also love the other feeder. Our house finches usually prefer black sunflower in the regular tube feeder we have, but I've seen them on the finch feeder too. I have seen chickadees enjoying the regular finch feeder. The house sparrows don't bother it though. One note: I have read that if you shorten the perches on a finch feeder it makes it more difficult for other birds to use those perches.

I'm getting ready to put up 2 more seed feeders, one hanging from the underside of the deck as the nyjer feeder does, and one window mounted. Its a walkout basement situation. I'll be using black oil sunflower seeds in the hanging feeder (its the Brome Squirrel Buster Standard) and I haven't decided, either sunflower chips/hearts or more black oil sunflower seeds in the window-mounted feeder. Will the Juncos be drawn more to those feeders than to the nyjer? I could mount the window feeder lower on the window to be nearer ground level if it might attract them away from the nyjer feeder. There are at least a couple of them that want to feed at the feeder now. I don't know if they are always the SAME couple but never more than 2 on the tube. I wouldn't mind except they insist on driving the goldfinches away. The VAST majority of them are happy on the ground. There does seem to be plenty of seed for them there, I can see it through the window even in the grass. The juncos like to fly up to my window and perch on the edge of it and peer in. I don't know why but they do. So flying INTO the window shouldn't be an issue. I've actually never seen a bird fly into a window, except once at someone else's house where they had a giant picture window that was in direct line with a patio door. I'm pretty sure the bird thought it was flying towards the trees it could see in the backyard through both windows. Otherwise I've never had a bird fly into a window. It kind of freaked me out the first time I heard one land - I thought one had flown into the window after all, but there was nothing there by the time I looked. When I heard the scritching sound the next time, I looked around and there was a junco just perched on the lip of the window looking at me out of the side of his head. Every now and then one will pop up and perch there for a few seconds before flying off. I have NO idea why. They're perched on the lip of the upper half of the window, not on the sill. It's kind of strange, LOL!

I also have a tube feeder. I notice other birds and critters (chipmunks, etc.) eat the leftovers that fall to the ground. I would think it's a combo of hulls and seeds, unless the hulls are yummy for the other birds. I did put a tray on the feeder, and that was a disaster. I had a chipmunk who made himself at home in the tray, and once I saw the HOSPs in the tray, I took it down. Squirrels also tried to get in, but it wasn't big enough for them. So, I'm thinking it's more than just hulls dropping into the tray, but I could be wrong.