Reading back through this blog, I've just come across a post from August 2008 when I mentioned that we had just seen house sparrows in the garden for the first time.
Well, since then, they have become permanent residents, and are currently nesting in the roof for the second year. They can get through two fat balls a day, though are being helped in that task by the robins, blackbirds, tits, starlings, greenfinches and goldfinches. The chaffinches, dunnocks and thrushes haven't developed the technique of hanging on to the feeders, and wait on the ground for little bits that drop from above.
There's plenty of birds here now!
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Do you get Pigeons and Magpies at the other end of the country Richard? Our garden is dominated by these, to the detriment of the proper garden birds we try to encourage.
We don't get Wood Pigeons or Feral Pigeons, though we have Rock Doves, which look very much like Feral Pigeons, maybe a bit smaller. They will come in to the garden, but are very shy. I've never seen a Magpie on Skye. What we do get, which are absent in the south, are Hooded Crows - a relative of the Carrion Crow, but with grey head and back. I suspect they will take a chick if they get the chance.
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