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The Birds In The Garden And Everywhere Else Thread

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Darran said:
https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1330235784255848448?s=21

I don’t do Twitter, but going from the link to his account I’m amazed at some of the awesome photos he’s taken. Thank you for the heads up.
 
https://twitter.com/npaulroberts/status/1338156428335452160?s=21


https://twitter.com/npaulroberts/status/1338153598945996800?s=12
 
Just something that hasn’t made the news. At the start of the Covid pandemic in March, blue tits here in Germany were struck down by a bacteria called Suttonella ornithocola. Bacteria attacked the lungs and blue tits were particularly affected. It‘s now December and we still haven’t seen any since.
 
Longlostjack said:
Just something that hasn’t made the news. At the start of the Covid pandemic in March, blue tits here in Germany were struck down by a bacteria called Suttonella ornithocola. Bacteria attacked the lungs and blue tits were particularly affected. It‘s now December and we still haven’t seen any since.

That’s bad news.

There’s quite a few of them on my feeders here in Loughor. 👍
 
Longlostjack said:
Just something that hasn’t made the news. At the start of the Covid pandemic in March, blue tits here in Germany were struck down by a bacteria called Suttonella ornithocola. Bacteria attacked the lungs and blue tits were particularly affected. It‘s now December and we still haven’t seen any since.
That is a real shame. I hope it doesn't cross the Channel. Blue & Great tits probably make up around 50% of our feeder visitors plus a very welcome gang of about 7-8 long-tailed tits each morning atm.
 
From what I gather the number of cases peaked in April and May and have declined since then. Numbers of blue tits obviously haven't recovered though - hopefully they will next Spring.
 
Longlostjack said:
From what I gather the number of cases peaked in April and May and have declined since then. Numbers of blue tits obviously haven't recovered though - hopefully they will next Spring.

The amount of birds we get in the garden where I live is amazing but I haven’t seen a greenfinch here for several years because of Trichomonosis.
 
I’ve just had words with my wife.
I’ve told her she’s putting too much food out for the birds and the squirrels are cleaning up.


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Darran said:
Longlostjack said:
From what I gather the number of cases peaked in April and May and have declined since then. Numbers of blue tits obviously haven't recovered though - hopefully they will next Spring.

The amount of birds we get in the garden where I live is amazing but I haven’t seen a greenfinch here for several years because of Trichomonosis.

When we moved to Somerset in 2004, Greenfinches were regulars on our feeders for the first 3 maybe 4 years, sometimes 2 or 3 at a time, then they just stopped and it was just the occasional one every few years. Until the last 2 years when they've become more frequent, not back to their early numbers but definitely on the increase. And here's one of them.

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