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Incidentally, I noticed that there were no sparrows here, at least a
year before I saw reports about their absence in the UK. They didn't
slowly decline, one year there were lots and the next they had all
gone. We have a sparrow that feeds in our garden at the moment, their
place has been taken by finches and tits.

There's a theory that they were hit by an epidemic of some sort, and
that it has nothing to do with human activity - after all, they are
known to have been associated with dwellings for centuries.

That isn't to deny though, that some new agricultural process couldn't
be to blame.


And it is unlikely to be in the current releases. You could google for
one though.

What about Percy wotshis names bird imitations?

Long ago I went to a small village beer festival in Bavaria, in the
gents was an obese Bavarian in lederhosen standing in a stall doing
really good bird imitations, I reported this to the friends I was
with. One went to see for himself, he reported that the Bavarian was
still there but was doing good steam engine imitations. About half an
hour later, the Bavarian emerged from the bogs and climbed onto the
stage, where he did a performance of bird and steam engine imitations.

Chough-chough-chough.........

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