Maybe you've got some bad niger seed. I've had batches
of niger seed that the finches wouldn't eat, and they
returned within a day or two after the older seed was
swapped with a fresh batch from a new purchase. 

--- Larry and Mona Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>     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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