Re: Re: goldfinch

Good question Kitty - my birdies are all olive drab in the winter and
our winters can't hold a candle to yours. Would be curious to hear the
answer myself.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
Sent: 8/8/2004 10:29:54 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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