I took all my camera gear on holiday last week and on the one day that I decided not to bring it along I saw this pure white sparrow sat on a fence. It helpfully kept out of range of my phone's camera too so this was the best shot I got of it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I couldn't agree more! I spend forever watching all the birds in my garden but the Sparrows are here in abundance! They like to shade in the jasmine I have on my pergola.... It holds at least 30 at a time plus a load of starlings....If I walk nearby there is a mass evacuation to the feeders in the mermaid rambling rose.... The other thing I like to do is hide and watch bath lessons in the shallow end of the pond 👍🤣 I can hear them tweeting from here!!
They'd be a joy a few gardens away but they use my garden as a toilet.
Yes, I have two nests above my back door. Both seem to have about eight clutches a year I exagerate, but they are pretty much Clapham station from January to July. Perhpas they kick out old nest contents between clutches under the eaves; down it comes and it makes a big mess. I tried growing viburnum by my back door years ago, but it just ended up as 'the sparrow mess tree' so I gave it away.
I don't mind, I like having the sparrows - they have, no doubt been here since the house was here. Edwardian houses tend to have proper eaves for wildlife to use. I just have to make an effort to sweep the path and clean the window sills Jan to June. I wish the cats would leave them alone.
I love them too ,we named our house Sparrow House as we have so many ,they come inside if I forget and leave the sitting room window open too far .I love it when they play on our window sill .Wish I had a camera and could show you all .
I think you mentioned that a while ago - hanging off your net curtains? 😄 I wish you had a camera too!!
Maybe it's like going into a shop and looking at something which initially interests you and then when you examine it closely, you don't actually fancy it ? They do seem to be keen on that tho - I always assumed they were after tiny insects and had to root round in the flower to find them.
I have a love hate relationship with sparrows. Nearly all the year they are a wonderful, busy addition to the garden, especially in winter but they also bring up their young which is nice, but for a short time in the spring they are little so and so's that seem to strip all my plants for fun. This year they took all the buds and flowers off a car sized viburnum lantana, ironically only there for wildlife, they stripped nearly all the buds off my new amelanchier, to the point I had to move it around the back and they love apple blossom. The rest of the year they are amazing to have but it's annoying they seem to only destroy our plants and leave the neighbours alone, even though we feed them and they don't.
I took all my camera gear on holiday last week and on the one day that I decided not to bring it along I saw this pure white sparrow sat on a fence. It helpfully kept out of range of my phone's camera too so this was the best shot I got of it.
I don't think that's a House Sparrow. Where was the picture taken?
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
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I can hear them tweeting from here!!
I wish you had a camera too!!
They do seem to be keen on that tho - I always assumed they were after tiny insects and had to root round in the flower to find them.
I feel like I get off lightly after hearing about other people's flower stripping! I've never experienced it anywhere! 🤞