Garden Birds (1 Viewer)

[Biscuitman]

On a fairly mundane note.....
I've noticed over the last few weeks a severe drop off in the number of birds visiting the feeding options in my garden.
The bird table and seed feeder down the end in the 'wild' part of my garden has been deserted and the other feeders recording only a few visitors per day.
the odd starling, blue tit, house sparrow etc but not the numbers I am used to seeing. Ground feeders are still around - Wood Pigeon, Robin and Dunnock but that's it.
Anybody else noticed a similar dropoff?

 

[burnie]

I can let you have a few dozen House Sparrows and Starlings if you like........................

 

[Biscuitman]

At the moment I wouldn't say no!

 

[Green Sandpiper]

I'm lucky enough to have a house sparrow colony nearby (they use my neighbour's bush as a staging point for my feeders) but I've had a steep drop- off in goldfinch and chaffinch over the past year. Greenfinch are a rarity now. H/Sparrow, dunnock, robin, coal tit, blue tit, and great tit all come to the feeders. Ironically, I get bullfinch and LT tit at the back garden that doesn't have feeders.