They gather at most feeding stations enjoying your food and each others' company. House finches will nest in manmade nest boxes. At feeding stations just about any feeder and type of food attracts the birds including suet, all types of birdseed, most fruits and bakery crumbs. They will regularly extract seed from winter berries. The best way to attract House Finches to your backyard is to offer black oil sunflower seed and a source of water.
Bird feeders are available for all age groups.
Some are as simple as a pine cone filled with peanut butter and hung in a nearby tree. Some people hang plastic meshed berry basket. They transformed the berry basket into a suet feeder. Despite the weather, wherever you live you can enjoy bird watching all year long with a little ingenuity. Use your trees, clean wooden boxes, and clean three-pound coffee cans and you'll have birds to watch all year long.