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They're the glamorous species, [predators]
not the sparrows.


We are fortunate in having a large Russian Vine on the front of the
house. It serves as a shelter for dozens of flocking sparrows

Language!

Oh, *FLOCKING* - as you were.

each
evening. They zoom into the vine in small flights of about five birds.
Julie often comments "There go the Spitfires again" as they fy in from
their various mustering points

I have an ivy tree: properly, it's an old steel irrigation pipe set
upright in the ground, with varigated ivy growing up it. It's got to the
stage where the whole of the pipe is covered in stems so it looks like
bark, and the top is bunched-out in the form of a small tree -
prunus/flowering cherry, etc, but much denser. The sparrows love that.

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