Gorm_the_Red
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re:Goldfinches Still Here - 2006/02/09 18:17
Now would be a good time to get your feeder out as some may be moving in to your area prety soon. A well abruptly stocked feeder may get them annually coming back all winter. Here, it looks like most have completed nestin as the trees are rigning with the sound of fledglings cryin to be fed. When you see an adult, it more than likely will have one or two fledglkings chasin after them.
Yesterday before a cold front came throuygh, I unsteadily coutned 80 on the feeders and on the ground under the feders. With what was in the trees estimated more than 100 total in the backlyard. This AM don't even have half that number, so some must have moved on south with the cold front. Until the last three weeks or so, most of the time I could only see from 2 to 6 males at the feeder.
Jim K.
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