# Goldfinch drinking from hummingbird feeder

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goldfinch-drinking-from-hummingbird-feeder/932013 "2021-02-01T20:53:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goldfinch-drinking-from-hummingbird-feeder/932013/21 "2021-02-03T02:43:09Z")

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I’ve never seen that with the goldfinches here, Thank You for sharing!

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goldfinch-drinking-from-hummingbird-feeder/932013/22 "2021-02-03T10:46:50Z")

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Heh. Not that I’ve seen. We do have rats in our barn, but there are also many well-fed central rat snakes in our barn.

We have a family of flying squirrels living in a corner of our attic. We had the guy who replaced our roof line the corner with metal and partition the corner with hardware cloth to minimize their damage.

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