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steve45
steve45
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Near enough sparrowless in my garden too this last two weeks. This is part of the usual pattern here and they'll be back albeit in small numbers soon.

No singing birds at all today.
Yorkshire Pie
Yorkshire Pie
Aug 2021
9:35am, 5 Aug 2021
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A sole blue tit braved the sparrow army this morning
Fragile Do Not Bend
Fragile Do Not Bend
Aug 2021
12:47pm, 5 Aug 2021
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A bit like my garden J2R - I’ve only seen a sparrow once in my rural garden, but I see loads half a mile away in the village, and also half a mile away in a different direction eating the cattle feed at a dairy farm.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Aug 2021
12:55pm, 5 Aug 2021
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House sparrow like privet hedges in my experience and I’ve never had one
bonners
bonners
Aug 2021
1:19pm, 5 Aug 2021
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Never had many sparrows at the old house but a right mob of them in our new garden. But we don't get and starlings and we had loads at the old place. Related?

Swift watch, working in Newtown seen and heard about 3 or 4 this morning
J2R
J2R
Aug 2021
1:36pm, 5 Aug 2021
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As it happens, DT, there's a superbly sparrow-friendly privet hedge down one side of our garden, just sans sparrows! I think the issue must be something like the lack of suitable cover between my house and where they're all chirping away, which as I mentioned no more than 150m or maybe 200m away. I'm convinced that if they were to investigate my garden, they'd love it
Hanneke
Hanneke
Aug 2021
1:59pm, 5 Aug 2021
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I always had a few, but it is the wildflowers that have attracted them en masse this year...
steve45
steve45
Aug 2021
2:18pm, 5 Aug 2021
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after my "absent" statement earlier a group of 12 House Sparrows descended into the garden after I had cut the privet hedge!
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Aug 2021
3:33pm, 5 Aug 2021
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steve the sparrow whisperer :-)
Neil_E_There
Neil_E_There
Aug 2021
7:23pm, 5 Aug 2021
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Usually lots of sparrows in our garden but they've made themselves scarce of late.

This afternoon we had a small bird of prey (possibly a Merlin?) devouring it's large clawed but unidentifiable meal.

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