If you are one of those lucky people who live with a garden that backs onto a wooded area, whether it be a park or woodland, or just a piece of overgrown unadopted land, then you might just be able to attract Eurasian Bullfinches to your feeders. This male Bullfinch is one of my most favourite birds. I have yet to attract one to my garden but I am lucky enough to attract them to my feeders on my allotment and not far from where I live there is a lovely wildlife area with a large lack and flood plain with different bird hides that I quite often frequent on a cold day with my binoculars. This is one of the birds you are Guaranteed to see there. I have spent many a day with my children there with a picnic and a birders book, marking off all of the birds they have spotted that day. It is a great way to introduce kids to some Feathery friends.
https://amzn.to/40Tqd9C National Trust: Out and About Bird Spotter – A children’s guide to over 100 different birds.
Here’s my choice of a great starter book for kids to learn to identify popular garden birds. It is written simplistically and has lots of good photos to identify the most common birds you would get to your garden feeders and also a few that you could see on a family day out on a woodland walk. It is small enough to fit in a child’s rucksack. They’ll be naming birds in no time.