In article , martin
writes

The last cock sparrow in our garden went quite mad: throwing himself
against the shed window, then, when we covered that, against the bedroom
window; then he 'adopted' the baby bluetits in the nesting box: he sat
on the box all day, trying to keep the parents away. The woodpecker also
attacked the box, so we hung a cage over the box. (After that all went
well, and the bluetits raised their young. We left the cage on there for
years.)
In any case, I wondered whether it was some sort of bird flu that had
this strange effect.

I wondered the same. It was certainly nothing to do with change of
habitat.


We can get up to 14 or 15 sparrows at one time in our garden. Don't seem
to have reduced in numbers, also long tailed tits and now loads of
blackbirds, a thrush r two and greenfinches since we hung one of those
bird 'tables' from the oak tree. They seem to love feeding off that
rather than from the bird feeders.

janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk