Almost all of the birds that I used to see in my garden are missing.
I live on the Surrey / Kingston border with plenty of woodland around.
Two years ago I discovered that a robin after two abandoned attempts made its nest in the back of my shed. The door is locked every night and opened some days so I had to make a sort of wedge with a perch on it to bend the door and give 24/7 access. Five little ones, having made quite a mess eventually flew off.
A couple of robins still follow my toils.
I had a bird box of blue tits and in a hollow old tree branch great tits nested.
We have three bird feeders that were attractive to quite a few birds.
Last summer I noticed the lack of birds and the seed holders were not being frequented.
This year things are very bad ( after the cold period).
In the garden we get a regular blackbird or two but very little else.
We used to get large gangs of blue tits swooping in but no more.
I am at a loss to work out what has caused this loss of birds.
It started before the cold period. No additional cats. I have only ever seen two Sparrow Hawks in the garden and never seen them in the skys around us.
The seed holders have been totally ignored. I have dumped the contents, cleaned the holders, refilled them but nowt. We used to get seed spilled onto the patio that other birds fed on.
Nyger seeds are visited occaisionally but not by the Collared doves.
I do hope my experience is not signs of things to come.
Any ideas what I can do to reverse the trend?
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Lack of birds ( feathered types) new
Lack of birds ( feathered types) new