Post by Louise on Jun 25, 2011 16:17:51 GMT
I've just experienced a dreadful thing 
A young Goldfinch was trapped inside one of my seed feeders and was 'hanging' from it
Luckily i was able to get a neighbour to vandalise the feeder without killing the young one and it flew away, seemingly okay
I'd been looking through the binoculars across at the Rowan and the feeders and thinking that now i really should go and refill them, i'd been lazy last evening and again this morning and the level of food was way below the 'hole'/aperture opening for their beaks to dip into - and at that point they have to stretch down into the main body/barrel/cylinder of the feeder to reach the food - so there i stood watching.
I then saw, between the windblown foliage, that one bird didn't look 'right', it was a young Goldfinch and looking again i could see that its legs/feet were dangling and i knew it was in trouble so i just ran
This little mite had wedged its neck between the barrel and the 'internal' fixture of the perch and not only had it got stuck but in its struggle its little legs and feet had come off its perch and it was just hanging there
I took down the feeder and its wings did a very small flutter and i thought it was dead, realised it was still warm and hoped that if i could get one of the strong male neighbours to rip the feeder apart it might just have a chance of getting free and living ..... and the rest is history
Most certainly a lesson learnt for me and perhaps others out there who are too lazy to refill their feeders in good time
I'm editing to show the feeder, it's a Gardman one.
A young Goldfinch was trapped inside one of my seed feeders and was 'hanging' from it
Luckily i was able to get a neighbour to vandalise the feeder without killing the young one and it flew away, seemingly okay
I'd been looking through the binoculars across at the Rowan and the feeders and thinking that now i really should go and refill them, i'd been lazy last evening and again this morning and the level of food was way below the 'hole'/aperture opening for their beaks to dip into - and at that point they have to stretch down into the main body/barrel/cylinder of the feeder to reach the food - so there i stood watching.
I then saw, between the windblown foliage, that one bird didn't look 'right', it was a young Goldfinch and looking again i could see that its legs/feet were dangling and i knew it was in trouble so i just ran
This little mite had wedged its neck between the barrel and the 'internal' fixture of the perch and not only had it got stuck but in its struggle its little legs and feet had come off its perch and it was just hanging there
I took down the feeder and its wings did a very small flutter and i thought it was dead, realised it was still warm and hoped that if i could get one of the strong male neighbours to rip the feeder apart it might just have a chance of getting free and living ..... and the rest is history
Most certainly a lesson learnt for me and perhaps others out there who are too lazy to refill their feeders in good time
I'm editing to show the feeder, it's a Gardman one.
