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Birdsong?
"David Hill" wrote in
: "...........We have a lot of buzzards in our area. Perhaps that's why there has been a decline in songbirds here in recent years...." We have anything from 4 to 10 buzzards here and I have often seen them perching on a couple of our poles. They certainly have done nothing to reduce the birdsong, on Tuesday and Wednesday I was woken just before 6am by the Birds, don't think I have known then quite so noisy. We regularly have chaffinches, green finches, hedge sparrows house sparrows, blue tits ,long tailed tits, great tits, and coal tits, robins, blackbirds, thrushes, Collared doves, wood pigeons, a pair of carrion crows, the odd starling(Though 10 yrs ago we had them by the hundred), Green woodpecker, magpies, Jays, and the Buzzards, rooks, a couple of Owls we hear at night or early morning. (NO wrens for the last couple of years).All of these seen or heard in the last week. Me too (except we have wrens as well, and a sparrowhawk, but I'm not sure about 2 types of sparrow - haven't looked that closely! Oh, and on one memorable occasion a hen at the top of an apple tree...) I'd be surprised to see a buzzard take more than the occasional song- bird - they are big things, and not all that manoeverable. I had a dog that managed to catch one once (both dog and buzzard deeply embarrassed by the whole thing, but both lived to tell the tale.) I thought buzzards lived mostly on rabbits? Our sparrowhawks don't seem to be making much of a dent in the local bird population and nor do the magpies. The species clearly can co- exist, or we'd have run out of small birds years back, so surely there must be some other factor involved? You probably get weirdos in most species - I've never seen a sparrowhawk behave in the way Inge describes, but I'm sure it can happen. As an example, I saw a spider try to eat a small frog once (yes, in the UK, in my back garden!), but I'm not sure that's one of the bigger risks faced by young frogs generally. (I like frogs much better than spiders, so I ran the hose on it and it left the frog and ran away. Maybe I curtailed the evolution of a disturbing race of frog-eating spiders....) Victoria -- gardening on a north-facing hill in South-East Cornwall -- |
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