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<\/a><\/p>\nDo House Finches Eat Regular Apples? Or Just the Seeds?<\/h2>\n
I stood trying to get a decent look at the House Finches in case they were migrating Purple Finches. That’s when I noticed the birds were digging their bills into ripe soft apples.<\/p>\n
Were they actually eating the apples? Or were they trying to get to the seeds or insects inside the apples?<\/p>\n As I watched, they clearly were breaking off and eating chunks of the apple itself.<\/p>\n It shouldn’t have surprised me, I’ve often seen birds eating crab-apples, but for some reason I was startled.<\/p>\n I wonder if House Finches can be a pest to commercial apple farmers? Given that House Finches don’t really move around in large flocks like European Starlings, probably not.<\/p>\n It was one of those “learn something new every day” walks. I wonder what I’ll see next time that I don’t expect?<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> Good thing I only grow strawberries! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[885,444],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-apple","tag-house-finch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nDo you have an apple tree? What creatures try to eat your apples? Please share your experience with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"