the Greenfinches this year?
I was digging up my sunflowers at the lottie, when I realised instead of flocks of Greenfinches and Goldfinches on the sunflowers this year, I 've had only Goldfinches
I've not seen a Greenfinch for a long time, is this just Lincoln or is it Country wide?/ shades x
yep i noticed a real drop in their numbers around here to :-\
Well I have about 6 altogether (greenfinches), not many compared to a few years back when I was counting up to 20 or more. I also had loads of goldfinches this year up until recently but I haven't seen one for a couple of weeks. I had one lone goldfinch on a nyger feeder. but as I said in the other thread the sparrowhawk was picking off a gold finch about every day. I had to stop feeding the birds in that area because it was goldfinch cafe. Greenfinches are susceptible to salmonella and I have had quite a few casualties in recent years. I do hope your Greenfinches return. Once we get really hard weather and that will be soon the finches all seem to turn up again. I have started looking for the siskins along with the greenfinches. Now chaffinches are still very common in my garden and as I said in the other thread the Tits in all forms hae had a very good breeding season in this area because I haven't seen so many feeding. The Sparrowhawk was around this morning I chased it off a couple of times because the Blackbirds weren't aware of it sat in the tree.
:( :(
lots of greenfinches and chaffinches, not a goldfinch here in the north west :)
I have greenfinches, goldfinches and chaffinches, also a lovely bullfinch and his wife, but unfortunately I havent seen his wife around for a few days which is a bit worrying as they are always together, but I wont give up searching for her, hopefully she is around somewhere.
there was a virus that knocked down the greenfinch population earlier this year, but the numbers seem to have increased again, and I've had a lot more recently at our feeder. Perhaps they've moved south for the winter?
:) maybe so tonybloke,
I've seen one greenfinch since i posted, so things are looking up ;D/ shades x