There were no goldfinches on the Mad River/Northfield and 
Hinesburg/Huntington CBCs (my recollection as a participant), none at my 
feeder since November, but a large number of redpolls everyday.

Yesterday I traveled with two others to Montreal Botanical Gardens to look 
for the European Goldfinch that has been reported there.  There were plenty 
of American Goldfinches, and we found the European, hanging out with his 
American cousins.

Happy birding,
Pat Folsom
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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]>
>>     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
>