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On Dec 17, 3:46*pm, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
If anyone is worried about a lack of birds on their feeders at the
moment, don't worry. I think the entire UK population is all here!

Usually a single woodpecker visits late morning and mid afternoon.
Today, five all at once fighting for a foothold. A sparrow army
fighting *a starling army (the sparrows won). Counted seven nuthatches
at one point. Too many tits and finches of all varieties to count.

Filled all the feeders and covered the bird table with about half an
inch of seeds early this morning. Used a kilo of sunflower hearts and
half a kilo of peanuts. Refilled all the feeders and bird table at
lunchtime. Another kilo of sunflowers and a kilo of peanuts (thanks to
woodpeckers scoffing the lot).

Just refilled all the sunflower feeders and the bird table, which was
bare! Have run out of peanuts.

That's three kilos of sunflower hearts in one day (so far). Close on
six quid's worth.

It costs a bit more than the TV licence but we both think it's a lot
more interesting and worth every pound!

But the ungrateful blighters always fly off as soon as the camera's
turned on and focused for the photo!!!!!

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling (after the great storm) from
the usually dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.

Sounds to me as if our bvirds have migrated East, Our numbers are
drasticaly down, We are using around 80% less feed than normal, we
just have Blue tits, a couple of great tits, a couple of robins
several blackbirds and a couple of greater spoted wood peckers, not a
sparrow in sight, last year we were providing bead and breakfast for
around 200 of the things.
I think that having a sparrow hawk moving in has driven most away..

We have sparrow hawks and other birds of prey in abundance here, the
hawks often hunt and kill birds in the garden but we still have hundreds
of small birds scoffing our feed supplies, just like Jake.

Janet (Scotland)