The bird.

A few days ago I was pottering around the yard. I bent down to pick up a roll of wire. Something bit my thumb so hard I screamed, I thought it must be a rat. When I looked down a bird was clinging grimly to my thumb. I couldn`t believe my eyes.I have never seen one like it here before. I prised it`s large beak open with my other thumb nail. It didn`t fly away, it fell to the floor. I realised it couldn`t fly. I found a shoe box and went to pop it in. It almost got my finger again. I offered it the end of a pencil, which it bit so hard I could lift it into the box. I gave it water and went to study the bird book. It was a Hawfinch. It`s beak was very much like a parrots.It was almost as big as a blackbird. Our local vet at Lostwithiel will treat any wildlife free of charge. I was going to take it in the following morning. There were a few sloes in the freezer waiting to be turned into gin, so I thawed a few out for his supper.To cut a long story short, he chewed his way out of the box with his powerful beak. I couldn`t find it. All was not lost however. My neighbour saw it and went to pick it up. She was bitten too. She phoned the RSPB who said it couldn`t be a Hawfinch because ther wasn`t any in Cornwall so they wouldn`t collect it .She phoned the RSPCA. They wernt at all interested. In the end she took it to the vet. We are now waiting for news of small attacker.