AlanR
Bird photographer
I went to Norfolk two weeks ago (to evacuate from the Severn-Trent area as we had no water!) I had a great week's birding - 30 new ticks - but now I am back the local birds have gone missing.
I my garden in the last week I have seen one Robin, one Dunnock and a couple of Woodpigeon (plus the Pigeons that live in a house behind us). No Blackbirds, no Starlings, no Sparrows, and no Magpies and Crows on nearby roofs. The Greenfinches, Blue Tits, Great Tits and Goldfinches had stopped coming a few weeks earlier.
In my trips around birding etc. (including a drive to Llanelli and back) I have seen virtually no Rooks, Starlings, Crows or House Martins, and just one Collared Dove. I don't think I have seen a Blackbird anywhere in the last seven days.
Have all the birds gone off somewhere on their summer holidays?
The only birds still vaguely common are Lesser Black-backed Gulls and more Black-backed Gulls than usual.
Alan
I my garden in the last week I have seen one Robin, one Dunnock and a couple of Woodpigeon (plus the Pigeons that live in a house behind us). No Blackbirds, no Starlings, no Sparrows, and no Magpies and Crows on nearby roofs. The Greenfinches, Blue Tits, Great Tits and Goldfinches had stopped coming a few weeks earlier.
In my trips around birding etc. (including a drive to Llanelli and back) I have seen virtually no Rooks, Starlings, Crows or House Martins, and just one Collared Dove. I don't think I have seen a Blackbird anywhere in the last seven days.
Have all the birds gone off somewhere on their summer holidays?
The only birds still vaguely common are Lesser Black-backed Gulls and more Black-backed Gulls than usual.
Alan
