I had hordes of them up until a couple weeks ago, now only a 
handful. I sort of assumed they got tired of competing with the 
increasing numbers of Redpolls here, now up to 75 or 80.

Last year, my several dozen resident Goldfinches vanished 
overnight in mid-fall, and were replaced about a month later by 
several dozen (I'm guessing new ones), who stayed the winter. 
This year if the residents left and were replaced by others, the 
transition was seamless, with no Goldfinch-less period until now.

Jane
Shoreham


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> The goldfinches are fine and feeding at my yard in beautiful downtown Brandon.
> 
> Sue Wetmore
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> From: Larry and Mona Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
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>>    Long time passing...
>>    But seriously, we seem to have very few around the feeders this winter.  
>>We've got large raucous mobs of redpolls at the niger seed feeder, but no 
>>goldfinches.  How were goldfinch numbers doing in this year's Christmas counts?
>>    Larry and Mona
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