That is great you're getting so many birds! Like the photo, too. I can't get the birds here right at the moment and posted a msg just a few min ago about that. I o see some birds right before it snows. I also hear them but they don't come. I didn't have this problem it seems, last winter. Is this a time of year they hide pretty much or hibernate?

I just couldn't believe we were getting so many finches at once! We usually just see them flying to the other feeder and then only 2 or 3. The past 2 days there have been flocks of them. I did't think that birds hibernate. I know that some of them go further south during the winter. There are still a few left here and more will come when the worst of the winter is over. The ones that are here love to come out when it bad weather - snowing more than windy.

Aren't they just wonderful to see? Thanks for sharing these photos. Lovely!

I see you're getting plenty of Goldfinches! So far, no Pine Siskins here

I'm also getting lots of Goldfinches here, but like you Rachel, no Siskins yet. If those arrive, there will be plenty of swarming.

I thought Goldfinches had left after the summer. My neighbor said he hasn't seen them even though he has a feeder. I decided to put up a nyjer seed feeder to see what would happen. Now there are about a dozen of them flying around in the yard battling with the Tree Sparrow for space on the finch sock.

On the downside, they seemed to consume about a pound of nyjer seed a day. Gold finches must eat a lot to keep warm. Good thing I purchase a big bag of nyjer seed in bulk.

Unfortunately after I install a hoop device to keep house sparrows away, they seemed to have gone after the finch feeder, so I am installing a hoop on that, too.