Kitchen Garden Forum

Apart from sparrows, we have thrushes. Not seen a thrush in our garden for 20 odd years.

The balckbirds are doing well- lots skulking, the pheasants are expanding, the tits are tittering and the jays are doing well . Not seen a hawk for a while...but in 2008 got a poor picture of one in our front lawn...

After 5 years in a rural area, the sparrows - counted 2 males this year! - have finally started to use the bird feeders. Previously they were in next doors garden but didn't dare venture into ours. AND they are bringing their youngsters in and have managed to partly eat and unravel one piece of biodegradable string which tied a cane to the Sweet Pea supports.

I'm so chuffed to see House Sparrows in my garden again! As I'm writing this, there are 16 of them fighting to get on my small bird table and they are making a right old racket! I think a bigger bird table is on the cards. (oh! some of them have discovered the food on the ground too!)

If someone had suggested to me, a few years ago, that I would be so excited about sparrows in my garden, I wouldn't have believed them....there used to hundreds. I have always liked them but seeing them on the feeders wasn't something which made me drop what I was doing to watch them, as is now the case! I can remember a time in winter, when the lawn would be a mass of them and the bird table emptied in no time at all.
How time and circumstances change things.
Cheers.