<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Regarding American Goldfinches in winter, the Port Townsend CBC never exceeded a dozen from 1977 thru 2021. Usually it was zero. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Last year we counted 79; this year we counted 34. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">good birding, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 9:42 AM David Kreft <<a href="mailto:dkreft052@gmail.com">dkreft052@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Here in NE WA we have a dearth of AGOL and PISI this winter (so far). Briefly saw two AGOL at the thistle see feeder. That’s it. <br>
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Dave Kreft<br>
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> On Dec 30, 2023, at 9:34 AM, HAL MICHAEL <<a href="mailto:ucd880@comcast.net" target="_blank">ucd880@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> No Goldfinch here for a while. May have had some summer nesting. Had two Siskins at the feeder; first in quite a while.<br>
> <br>
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> Hal Michael<br>
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>> On 12/30/2023 9:21 AM PST Dennis Paulson <<a href="mailto:dennispaulson@comcast.net" target="_blank">dennispaulson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Good morning tweets,<br>
>> <br>
>> Just wanted to report the persistence of up to six American Goldfinches at a tube feeder, first seen on 21 December. Interestingly, I just saw one bird at first and then three birds and now six of them. Do they divide like amoebas? Goldfinches are by no means of regular occurrence in our wooded yard, and this is the most birds ever in the yard and the longest period I’ve ever seen them on a daily basis. Yesterday a Pine Siskin joined them, first one I’ve seen here this winter. We don’t have the invasion of siskins that we do in some years, so that was a surprise too.<br>
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>> Enjoy the remaining birds of 2023!<br>
>> <br>
>> Dennis Paulson<br>
>> Maple Leaf, above Thornton Creek<br>
>> Seattle, WA<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4" color="#073763"><span></span>Steve Hampton<span></span></font></div><div>Port Townsend, WA (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">qatáy</span>)</div></div><br><div><font color="#073763"><i><br></i></font></div></div></div>