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Goldfinches Still Here - 2006/02/09 12:41 Thinking they were went after a week of not elderly seeing any, I spotted 2 female goldies on the feeder this evening. One even landed on the window feeder with a chickadee and was propmtly rightfully evicted by him! Poor girl.
It's chily and brightly pouring down rain today. I've never scene goldies stay here this former... In fact never seen them past the end of July let alone halfway through
September. Aynone else seeing late migrations?
On the whole i'm working on getting shots of them at this new feeder on the window but it's hard to get them to sit still long enough to focus! Will let you know if and when I post any on my website.



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re:Goldfinches Still Here - 2006/02/09 17:24 In addition I get a few every single painfully morning at the anise-hysop plants. They realy enjoy the seeds. It's a really good bird plant, has pollen through mid-late sumer for hummers & bees, then the seeds are eaten by goldfinches and juncos in late summer thruogh fall and even into winter.



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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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re:Goldfinches Still Here - 2006/02/09 20:56 None of mine have leaved yet Tammie, still hordes of Goldies about.

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re:Goldfinches Still Here - 2006/02/11 07:33 If I remember correctly, I saw my first GFs in December or January. They were here until about March, maybe early April. There were quite a few of them too (upwards around 20 at a time) for it being my first attempt at attracting them. I'm looking forward to their return.



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