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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coaltit" data-source="post: 3171221" data-attributes="member: 128655">Sad to hear you lost the trees and for what gain from the Farmers point of view for every mature tree lost their never replaced If the Farmer has anything to do with it his grandfather may have thought Different And added something back, and wherever it does happen its like a breath of Fresh air to me thou most likely on Estate land which can be catered for..   Even going back to the 70,s when greenfinch numbers were good they were Always a shy breeder like the bullfinch in some ways but the pairs of Bullfinch I knew that bred annually were more loyal to a given location than The greenfinch were and thou in the last ten years a pair of greenfinch In Two or more successive years brought their fledged young in to our garden Trees, I,ve witnessed less than the fingers on one hand where nesting pairs Have been found in 43 years personally Extremely elusive so any nesting pairs could so easily be over looked when monitoring them now where There Aren,t many.</blockquote>