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Marc1314 -> Why have the house sparrows from my garden gone? (7/15/2018 11:02:07 AM)
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Hi, does anyone here know about garden birds?
I'm pretty keen about wildlife especially birds and over the past year or two I've started putting out bird seed and fat balls to encourage birds to visit my back garden.
It's mostly Starlings and House Sparrows with the occasional Magpie, Blue tits, pigeons and a robin or two.
I like the House sparrows in particular and there is at least 3 nests in my neighbours and my roofs which meant after their young ones could fly I had at least 10-15 different sparrows would visit my feeder all day long from the crack of dawn until bedtime.
So this is going on every day until last week I realised that the feeders were still full and when I watch the feeders over the next couple of days I didn't see a single sparrow (but still get starlings pigions etc.) and I havnt seen any going to and fro from their nests.
They are also absent from the roof ridges where they usually like to chirp really loudly.
So i'm hoping maybe someone would know if they will come back or not and maybe what has caused them to disappear?
Their nests havn't been touched and I havnt seen any dead birds
anywhere on the ground. The only thing in the garden that has changed recently is the amount of kids.
The summer holidays started here a couple of weeks ago and my kids and the neighbours and half the street have been playing in the paddling pool in our garden.
I wouldn't of thought they would be bothered about the kids but they can be pretty loud, would this affect the sparrows(and only sparrows)?
Cheers,
Marc
EDIT: this garden is in the UK btw
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