Tuesday, 17 March 2020

BYGONE BIRDING: HAWFINCH 'NUISANCE' IN SUSSEX


Hawfinch - Sussex birds made a meal out of garden peas

From The Zoologist journal, February, 1869


Hawfinches in West Sussex


Sir -

These birds have been a great nuisance here this season with their attacks on the garden peas. 

They seem to be far more numerous of late years.

In fact, until ten years ago, they might have been  termed locally rare, but, since then, scarcely a season passes without some stray individuals turning up. 

H. Marmaduke-Langdale
Thorneycroft 
Compton
W.Sussex 

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