IT’S
GOOD TO SEE 4 or 5 greenfinches at the sunflower feeders at
Armitage's Garden Centre, Shelley. We don’t get
them regularly in our garden and nationally there has been concern about a ‘bug’ Trichomonas (a
protozoan) which they are susceptible to. Chaffinches have
also been affected but goldfinches, perhaps because of their different feeding
habits, seem to
be doing well.
There
are four species of tits coming to the feeders, blue tit, great
tit, willow tit (far right) and coal
tit (left) with those badger-like stripes on its head.
By
the way, talking about badgers, one of the members of the West Yorkshire Geology
Trust was telling me that she has had trouble with them. She evidently lives
in a quiet, well-wooded corner of the county and badgers are regulars in her
garden. She has a cat and the badgers learned to get through the cat-flap to
raid her kitchen! She has sealed the cat-flap now.
