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RSPB report House Sparrow increase (1 Viewer)

trw

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Read a report House Sparrow numbers have increased by 10% in recent years.
Certainly reflected in our garden; around 15 regulary visit our feeders, they're nesting so there's more on the way.
Its costing a fortune in bird feed. They're partial to fat feeders and no-mess mixed bird food. Not keen on sunflower hearts but will eat them if there's nothing else.
Two regular Tree Sparrow aren't daunted by their presence. They often boss around the House Sparrow and shove them off the feeders.
We've now got a visiting pair of Long-tailed Tit, a pair of Woodpigeon, a pair of Collared Dove, some Dunnock, Blackbird, Coal Tit, Blue Tit and Great Tit and a male pheasant.
A Sparrowhawk sometimes passes by.
 
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Got around 20 House Sparrows here Pratincol. When the starlings arrive at the same time (en masse) it's chaos.
 
Got around 20 House Sparrows here Pratincol. When the starlings arrive at the same time (en masse) it's chaos.

I suspect the number of House Sparrows depends on the type of habitat. I walk home through a estate where most residents have paved over their gardens and driveways, replaced hedges and greenery with fences and left nothing for birds or wildlife generally.
Fortunately we inherited a small garden with plenty of trees and shrubs including three large Bay Trees which the sparrows love;lots of all year round cover for them. The gardens next door haven't been wrecked neither.
Also there's a small woodland next door which attracts a fair few birds.
 
We rarely get sparrows and have seen a starling once in the past ten years. We are rural, large garden with plenty of shrubs and trees (nearly 100!), backing onto woodland and about 500m from farmland. We do get lots of blue tits, great tits, coal tits, long tailed tits, chaffinches, great spotted and green woodpeckers, collared doves, wood pigeons, thrushes, dunnocks, pheasant, nut hatches, treecreepers, magpies, jays, rooks, jackdaws, robins,wrens, occasional greenfinch, goldfinch, marsh tit, red legged partridge, bullfinches, sparrowhawk, and we have red kites circling overhead all day.
 
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