Re: goldfinch

Bonnie,
I was replying to Auralie's comment:
> the males lose their brilliant color in the fall and spend the winter
looking
> like their drab
> mates.
So why would mine have been brilliantly feathered in the dead of winter?

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] goldfinch


> I'm not sure that is the case, Kitty.  I think if you keep enough natural
or
> bird feeder filled treats around for the finches you already have, they
will
> over winter with you.  If they can't find the food as fall/winter comes,
> they will move on to better "feeding" grounds.  I doubt it was an escaped
> parakeet!  Since I leave the seed heads on my coneflowers and a couple
other
> seed bearing plants they seem to like, they will over winter in our yard.
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Kitty
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 10:06 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] goldfinch
>
> I DID see a bright neon-yellow goldfinch in the dead of winter several
years
> back.  Are you telling me it was probably an escaped parakeet instead?
>
> Kitty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] goldfinch
>
>
> > That's interesting, Pam.  Our goldfinches don't go South.  They're here
> all
> > winter, but
> > the males lose their brilliant color in the fall and spend the winter
> looking
> > like their drab
> > mates.  One of the first signs of spring here is when the males begin to
> have
> > a few
> > bright feathers.  They look pretty patchy for a few weeks before they're
> all
> > golden
> > again.
> > Auralie
> >
> > In a message dated 08/07/2004 10:06:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > gardenqueen@academicplanet.com writes:
> > feed them here in the winter to get them fattened up for their trip
> > North so they can do their summer breeding. I don't get to see them in
> > their pretty summer color though unless I go up to Jesse's.
> >
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