Thought I would share this evenings happenings in my garden in Wales...
A few weeks ago, we had a lovely Juvenille Greenfinch in our garden, a few days later I found him/her out in the front garden, dead. Such a shame... That left us thinking, should we have done something..?
This evening, same again, you could literally reach out and touch it, so timid and oblivious...
So...
This is where I hope we have done something right..?
He's currently in our porch, in a cat carrier, with lots of newspaper, branches, seed scattered and a bowl of water. Probably not the happiest environment for the little chap, but nethertheless, he's safe for the night!
The Plan:
Let him out first thing tomorrow, and hope that he would have learnt his lesson, he'll either stay up in the trees, or he'll be back with us tomorrow night until the following day, and so on, and so on...
Cruel --> ? Not sure, is it better to be cruel to be kind?
Love to hear your thoughts on this, and maybe someone else out there is doing similar?
Ross & Traci & boys...
Thanks
Ross & Traci
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Oh, gosh, I hope not... Although most of the symptoms are present... Should I think about moving the bird outside? It doesn't say if it can be passed to humans etc?
Yes, we have vets, I'll give them a call in the morning, hopefully they will be open on Saturday's!
We've just been discussing the recent casualty, it was a juvenille too, we haven't seen any adults with similarities...
I hope he's just a youngster, I'll update in the morning!
Thanks Alan
No problem, nature is a harsh beast sometimes... :(
Thanks again
I'm afraid to say that he didn't make it through the night, and now I've spotted another Juv GF with the same symptoms... Feeders have been removed and everywhere Dettol'd...
Any other things we can do to stop the spread?
Yes, we've moved everything and emptied water baths.
I had another read earlier and I thought that may be the case, hopefully we can resume to full feeding again soon! I'll keep you posted
Ross and Traci, if you can leave it for about 3 weeks before feeding again it might be best. There appears to be plenty of wild food about at the moment. It is a real problem. I have spotted a couple of very sick wood pigeons in the last two days and they are another bird that really suffers with it.
Caroline in Jersey
Cin J
Thanks Caroline, fingers crossed