Ive never know it so quiet in the garden.

[Steve_In_Cheshire]

Over the last 3 days ive notived their have been quite a few sultanas left on the lawn which is very rare for here considering how many blackbirds normally visit, also the feeders with sunflower hearts havn`t been touched for a while which is also rare for our garden given how many finches we have visiting.

The wood pigeons and doves are as regular as clockwork though scheming and planning the moves of how to get on the feeders

Has anyone else noticed its gone quiet and tailed off a bit ?

[Jason Green]

Hi Steve,

Not personally, but at this time of year it isn't surprising. About this time the natural summer berries are ripening and encouraging the birds to leave our gardens, and get to the countryside for a feast. As well as this, they will be moulting into their Autumn/Winter coats, and so will keep a low-profile owing to them being more conspicuous during this transitional stage.

As soon as the colder temperatures set in, they'll return with their tails between their legs!

[bobbarber]

My garden is pretty much the same here in Ireland, just a few blue and great tits around. The young have dispersed and most of the adult birds are probably in moult...Bob

[Keith Talbot]

Are you kidding!

Im filling up 3 feeders with sunflower hearts every couple of days,the peanut feeder every 3-4 days and putting new fat balls in the feeder every couple of days.

There seems to be a second brood of Gold Finches and Green Finches,the young Tits have been regular and we get 2 visits a day from about 8 Long Tails Tits add them all to the usual Robins, Dunnocks, Starlings, Blackbirds, Doves, Pigeons, Rooks, Jackdaws and Magpies!

Quiet it certainly isnt!

[Ollie]

Been much quieter in my garden this last week or so. the sunflower hearts seem to be lasting twice as long and I'm only having to fill the other feeders once a day where a couple of weeks ago it was twice a day.

I would expect this though as the harvest is well under way round me (when its's not raining at least) and there will be plenty of spilt grain in the fields and tracks that the corn trailers are using.

[Nickynockynoonoo]

"their have been quite a few sultanas left on the lawn!

Maybe they're the wrong sultanas. Maybe try raisins?

Sorry Steve, couldn't resist

[BloomingMarvellous]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, very quiet in the garden these day's I must add-mitt, but doesn't it just show that Natures just gets on with Nature at times of great need. Me thinks so indeedly... I thinks but forgive me if I'm wrong, sometimes Man Is often wrong...

[tcvarlh]

Originally Posted by Nickynockynoonoo

"their have been quite a few sultanas left on the lawn!

Maybe they're the wrong sultanas. Maybe try raisins?

Sorry Steve, couldn't resist

Was that called for in the current climate ? Graping around for terrible jokes? Dry fruit humour doesn't raisiny laughs you know? In fact sometimes it can be inSultaning!

Sorry I couldn't either

[Sprout]

ha ha ha
we've noticed the reverse - loads more birds in the last couple of weeks, mainly the whole spectrum of tits (blue, great, long-tailed), some juvenile robins and a couple of dunnocks.
the most interesting thing is a wren nesting for, i think, the 3rd time. the nest box is high up on the garage apex, and she's been in and out like a fiddlers elbow over the last few days with bits of fluff and vegitation. i thought at first she was feeding her new brood, she's so quick i couldn't make out what was in her mouth, but it's defo nest building. isn't it a bit late one for a wren to start nesting again?

[Nickynockynoonoo]

Originally Posted by tcvarlh

Was that called for in the current climate ? Graping around for terrible jokes? Dry fruit humour doesn't raisiny laughs you know? In fact sometimes it can be inSultaning!

Sorry I couldn't either