On 18 May 2012 06:51:24 GMT, Derek Turner wrote:

On Thu, 17 May 2012 23:01:09 +0100, 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!

Resident cat regularly curls up under the bird table and watches but
never goes for them. A neighbour's cat used to come into the garden
if resident cat wasn't there and would often kill a bird and leave it
on the lawn. Enough people complained about that cat's bird killing
that in the end the neighbour gave it away to someone living in
central Cardiff (where birds don't often appear in gardens because
there aren't any - gardens that is).

Maybe the secret with finches is that I clean all the bird feeders and
table at least weekly. Dally if starlings are around

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.