Saw a white-breasted nuthatch today--first nuthatch I've noticed in the yard this winter. A brown thrasher and I startled each other badly a little while ago. It literally grazed my face when it took off out of the tall shrubs I was brushing past.

Windsinger, unless you have cover or seedheads that they like in your vicinity to draw them to your habitat, it may take a good long while before goldfinches discover your thistlefeeder. If in summer there are gardens or fields that have chicory, rudbeckia, echinacea or other good seedflowers, but all of that gets mowed down in the fall, they may just not be around to discover the feeder. If you keep the feeder up during the summer, when there are seed crops to begin to draw them, they'll find it and keep coming to it in winter.

Leastways, that has been my experience.

Janie