Do they stash seeds as chickadees do? The chix used to "eat" as much
black sunflower as I was willing to put out, then I discovered they were
shoving the seeds up between the boards on my house as well as my
neighbors' houses. In winter, they take the seeds from storage. Do the
finches stay here or migrate?

BTW: Have y'all read the wonderful story, "Rare Bird," in Andrea Barrett's
short story collection, Ship Fever? In it, an 18th century woman (!)
scholar (!!) attempts to engage Linnaeus on the topic of swallows not
spending their winters under water. The book won this year's National
Book Award. It's terrific.

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Clarice Clark and Jerry Broadus wrote:

>
> Subject: The week of the Goldfinch
>
....They eat amazing
> amounts of seed, and just when I think they are full, they move down
> to the cosmos flower seed heads and really stuff themselves.
> Clarice Clark
> jbroadus at seanet.com
> Puyallup, WA. 98371
>