My husband I found a cup nest partly hidden in a tangle of vines yesterday.  
I could see a small tail sticking up.  A male Goldfinch few out of the tangle, 
followed shortly by a yellow bird too fast to identify, at which point the 
tail was no longer visible.  We then saw a female Goldfinch bringing in nesting 
material in her beak.  I make a point of this because it is indicated in the 
last Maryland Atlas that Goldfinch being nesting in early July and I would not 
have expected to see such an early start on nest building.  

Elise Kreiss
Baltimore City