Last year next door had sparrows and starlings nesting in his roof but not this year - not sure where they've gone - we're thinking of putting up some sparrow nest boxes on the side of the house http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/rspb-sparrow-terrace-nestbox.html
Got to check out whether the north side of the house is the right place
Loved the video Bob, thanks for letting us see your lovely garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am sad to say that we no longer seem to get any sparrows in our garden at all in fact we hardly have any birds at present despite having several feeders - it is really sad.
Not many sparrows about, but most of the others seem to have had two lots this year. The greenfinches produced another set of fledglings this morning. Six all lined up waiting for mum. We have lots of blue tits, longtailed tits, robins, greenfinches and bullfinches. nuthatches seem to be holding their own, but goldfinches and chaffinches a bit thin on the ground at the moment.
50 plus sparrows a time visit our garden, and this year as trifid house says, we have had a family of starlings at the feeders - the first since I was a teenager (a long time!). We have wrens, robins, a pair of dunnocks, blue and great tits and the obligatory wood pigeons and ring necked doves. We occasionally have the odd flock of visiting long tailed tits too; Not to mention of course, the blackbirds! We are also priveledged to have a pair of Dunnocks who reside year on year. What we are missing however, is a thrush, which 20 years ago was a regular to the garden. Is it me, or are these much less prolific recently? Either way, a great year for birds which is encouraging - and expensive (don't mind though!) - We also fill the feeders twice daily; increasing the amount of feeders strangely doesn't help!
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Last year next door had sparrows and starlings nesting in his roof but not this year - not sure where they've gone - we're thinking of putting up some sparrow nest boxes on the side of the house http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/rspb-sparrow-terrace-nestbox.html
Got to check out whether the north side of the house is the right place
Loved the video Bob, thanks for letting us see your lovely garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am sad to say that we no longer seem to get any sparrows in our garden at all in fact we hardly have any birds at present despite having several feeders - it is really sad.
Not many sparrows about, but most of the others seem to have had two lots this year. The greenfinches produced another set of fledglings this morning. Six all lined up waiting for mum. We have lots of blue tits, longtailed tits, robins, greenfinches and bullfinches. nuthatches seem to be holding their own, but goldfinches and chaffinches a bit thin on the ground at the moment.
50 plus sparrows a time visit our garden, and this year as trifid house says, we have had a family of starlings at the feeders - the first since I was a teenager (a long time!). We have wrens, robins, a pair of dunnocks, blue and great tits and the obligatory wood pigeons and ring necked doves. We occasionally have the odd flock of visiting long tailed tits too; Not to mention of course, the blackbirds! We are also priveledged to have a pair of Dunnocks who reside year on year. What we are missing however, is a thrush, which 20 years ago was a regular to the garden. Is it me, or are these much less prolific recently? Either way, a great year for birds which is encouraging - and expensive (don't mind though!) - We also fill the feeders twice daily; increasing the amount of feeders strangely doesn't help!