This Greenfinch on our feeder today shows clear signs of having the Trichomonosis disease, there are also two Chaffinches showing the same symptoms. They are all fluffed up and lethargic and seem to be having problems with swallowing, and as the photo shows usually with seed husks round the bill. I am in somewhat of a dilemma about what is the best way to deal with the problem, we can carry on feeding and risk making the situation even worse by encouraging birds to feed from the same seed tray and becoming infected, or stop feeding all together in the hope that the disease will in time burn itself out. The only problem with latter solution is that in hard weather such as we are experiencing at present, many birds have come to rely on garden feeders to see them through the Winter.
In some ways I feel it's a bit of a catch 22 situation.
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