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Goldfinches and starling visit in large numbers to feed at the bird feeders.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2020

On the edge of the forest next to the meadow, a pair of young Goldfinches were about to begin housekeeping.

From Among the Forest People by Pierson, Clara Dillingham

Goldfinches and yellow warblers, vireos and robins, were about; I heard them on all sides, but not one intruded upon her tree or the neighboring sides of the maples.

From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne

Winter time is the most proper for taking all manner of Small Birds, as flocking then promiscuously together, Larks, Lennets, Chaffinches, Goldfinches, Yellow-Hammers, &c. with this Bird-lime, made as afore-spoken; only additionally thus ordered.

From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Howlett, Robert

Goldfinches cling to the thistle tops, merry little clowns in yellow and black, antic tumblers no less agile and versatile than the chickadee.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee