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16-11-2008, 04:04 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Mar 2007
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| | | no birds
can anyone explain to me why suddenly all the birds have stopped coming to my feeders? I have had, until last week, goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch,as many as 30 of these together at any one time, sparrows, a few starlings, the odd robin and blackbird, now suddenly nothing! I had a visit or two from a sparrow hawk about a month ago and it didn't seem to deter them at the time. My neighbour is suffering too and her feeding area is too enclosed for the sparrow hawk to go to her garden so I can't think it's that. I have been feeding birds for years and have never experienced a dirth of birds as I have in the last week I would love to know why I miss them so much.
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16-11-2008, 04:16 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: west midlands
Posts: 1,821
| | | Re: no birds
I too posted about this a few weeks ago, I too have fed them for years. Some explained it away with plumage change. But I thought it was too late in the year to be that. I have had a few return. This morning I recorded 1 green finch(usually I have a least 5 or 6) 1 great tit, 1 blue tit, 2 sparrows (usually 10 +) 2 dunnocks and 3 blackbirds. This sounds a lot but really it is a touch on what i normally see I have noted they are coming later in the morning too I hope that yours begin to return soon It is a puzzle
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16-11-2008, 04:20 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Molesey, Surrey
Posts: 5,521
| | | Re: no birds
Hi there,
the most probable answer is that we are experiencing a warm, slightly damp autumn, where there is plenty of natural wild food still available, so birds are not needing descend on gardens to utilise the extra non-natural food being put out for them.
The birds are still there, you only have to go into any woodland or scrub at the moment to see the flocks of mixed tit/crest/thrush gleaning food as they move through.
People for some reason always assume that the sudden dearth is due to the presence of sparrowhawks, though this hardly ever the case.
Cheers,
Adam |
16-11-2008, 04:23 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
Posts: 2,830
| | | Re: no birds
erm, how are we gonna do this with the 2 threads? i posted on the other one.
it is down to plumage change as tameblackbirds said (i believe it was me who told that to tameblackbirds in the first place    ) | | |
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