I usually don't do puffery but we always have lots of goldfinches, summer 
and winter. They eat hulled sunflower seed from a squirrel proof columnar 
feed. Doris scattered hulled seeds on the snow this morning and the 
goldfinches are gleaning the snow like so many sparrows.

They have been showing up in numbers since the nieghbors began planting 
purple coneflowers several years ago.

Phil Brody,
Bethesda (Bannockburn)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Martin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Goldfinches


> Our goldfinch numbers are up today as well. If other places got freezing 
> rain as we did in Kent County, the twigs and weeds have a coating of ice, 
> which makes it harder for the birds to get at the seeds. Hence they switch 
> their attention to feeders. The kinglets and other insect-gleaners have a 
> harder time after ice storms, searching for food in more sheltered 
> interiors of evergreens, etc. that didn't get coated if they can.
>
> Take care,
>
> Nancy Martin
> Chestertown
>
> On 1/21/2012 12:39 PM, James Tyler Bell wrote:
>> We also haven't had any goldfinches until today. At first it was a single 
>> bird earlier this morning but now there are four. All of our neighbors 
>> keep asking us about them so maybe they'll have had some as well. Weird.
>>
>>   Tyler Bell
>> 
>> California, Maryland
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>   From: Jim Wilson<>
>> To: 
>> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:03 AM
>> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Goldfinches
>>
>> For the first time in 2 months, Goldfinches have shown up at the feeders. 
>> I guess they were waiting for the snow.
>>
>> Jim Wilson
>> Queenstown
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