No siskins, redpolls or house or purple finches at my place in Fairlee, but a regular healthy bunch of goldfinches (largest number ever seen at one time was 32). A good number still around, males molting into breeding plumage. Mark Council On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:39 AM, John Granton <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Now that winter is (hopefully) behind us, I have a question. I had zero > winter finches this feeder season. I understand that Redpoll appearances > are cyclical, but I always have at least a few Pine Siskins and/or > Goldfinches. I also noticed in other folks postings that there wasn't much > mention of these birds. So I'm wondering, did other folks have a similar > experience, or was it just me? > > John Granton > > Canaan > > **************************************************************** To post > messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your > e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list > owner: [log in to unmask] Web based > archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html**************************************************************** -- It's not by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is actually an empty hole through which the world becomes known to us. Likewise, in a spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we see everything. It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil, for it is only when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that we become truly teachable. -Mark Nepo **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************