Since we started summer feeding two years ago, there has been a huge
decline in the numbers of birds and numbers of species coming for the
food: a tenth the number of various kinds of tits and of blackbirds,
etc., and, most worryingly, no parents of any kind feeding young except
crows, magpies, and jackdaws. I blamed it on the sparrowhawk, as there
are very few cats around here. However, there are ever more squirrels,
surrounded, as we are, by the Evelyn chestnuts.

And then:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...05/29/nsquir29.
xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/29/ixuknews.html

so that's it ;-(((

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Klara, Gatwick basin