My Goldfinches disappear every winter. I think it's because my thistle feeder loses it's cover when the leaves come off the trees making them feel too exposed to come to it. Ron Payne Middlebury, VT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry and Mona Rogers" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 7:34 AM Subject: [VTBIRD] Where have all the goldfinch gone? 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