Elise,
   I saw a Goldfinch collecting nesting material in Garrett County in May 2003. I do not know if sometimes they build the nest then wait two months to use it.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Elise Kreiss <> wrote: 
> 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
>