In article , Mike Gilmore muddywelli
writes
Love the little things and would not do a thing to harm them in any way.
But all of a sudden they have taken a fancy to dead-heading the primroses.

Funny, I was going to start a thread about that!!!!!!
We have had a tremendous display this year - and they have all been
snipped (

Only the yellow flowers are affected and the poor birds are no longer "our
sparrows" but "YOUR sparrows".

They have done yellow, red, pink and mauve here.

First, has any gardener come across this sparrow thing in their garden?

Yes - they do it every year to a certain extent but this year seems to
be literally frenzied. And it's not just sparrows. I have seen
chaffinches and greenfinches doing it as well.

Second, do other gardener's have this problem where ownership of something
is abruptly transferred to them, however innocous, by their better halves?

Oh yes.
Children springs to mind ))
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