These guys live around here. They're not as flashy as the goldfinches or as, ahem, assertive as the sparrows.
They won't feed in our yard unless we put out black oil sunflower seeds. I don't know if they don't like nyjer thistle, or they don't like goldfinches, but they won't use the socks.
Now that we have a feeder right outside the back door filled with black oil sunflower, the house finches have been making appearances in droves.
Yay!
Doodled from this photo on quinet's Flickr photostream.