"Derek Turner" wrote ..

Bob Hobden wrote:

And I can still feel the "claws" on my finger.


You are very fortunate, not least as the Greenfinch has declined
drastically over the last few years.

Well, if they are as trusting of, say, cats and corvids as they are of
Jake that's hardly surprising!

I understand it's because they have caught a parasite disease from Pigeons
(Trichomonosis), it's jumped a species, and from what I've read it has
spread amongst finches mainly because people don't clean/disinfect their
bird feeders often enough.

http://www.bto.org/science/populatio...-trichomonosis
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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