Just managed to get into the garden for the first time this week, where are
all the sparrows, is it just my garden, or me.
Anyone who has to many send them up to the north east, I have plenty of
food.

Harry

We have about 20 odd who have been with us for ages.

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"Harry" wrote in message
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Just managed to get into the garden for the first time this week, where
are
all the sparrows, is it just my garden, or me.
Anyone who has to many send them up to the north east, I have plenty of
food.

Harry

"Mike" wrote in message
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We have about 20 odd who have been with us for ages.

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H.M.S.Collingwood Ass. Llandudno 20 - 23 May Trip to Portmeirion
National Service (RAF) Ass. Cosford 24 - 27 June Spitfire Fly Past
H.M.S.Impregnable Ass. Sussex 1 - 4 July Visit to Int. Fest of the Sea
RAF Regiment Assoc. Scarborough 2 - 5 Sept. Visit to Eden Camp
"Harry" wrote in message
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Just managed to get into the garden for the first time this week, where
are
all the sparrows, is it just my garden, or me.
Anyone who has to many send them up to the north east, I have plenty of
food.

Harry

House sparrow population has declined by about 50% since 1970. Numerous
reasons have been put forward invluding loss of hedges and bird proofing
of homes.
Although around my area in SE Scotland, the decline isn't too obvious,
(my beech hedge is providing shelter to loads at present) there is a lot of
literature on the web about the problem. I have copied across some links for
those interested

http://www.sparrowsneedhedges.com
http://www.bto.org/gbw/HOUSP/
http://www.bto.org/gbw/GBW_NEWS/NEWS...OUSPINSERT.pdf

regards,

David

House sparrow population has declined by about 50% since 1970.

Vermin cats don't help the matter, but a wonderful little device called the
Cat and Dog Repeller, it works off 2 x 9 volt batteries and is a small and
very portable unit and is easy to hide. It is made by STV International Ltd
2002 at Little Cressingham in Norfolk. This will help the situation for the
gardener who likes to see the fruits of his labour AND the wild birds which
come.

Mike
who has a cat crap free garden :-))))))))))))))))))))))))

"Mike" wrote in message
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House sparrow population has declined by about 50% since 1970.

Vermin cats don't help the matter, but a wonderful little device called
the
Cat and Dog Repeller, it works off 2 x 9 volt batteries and is a small and
very portable unit and is easy to hide. It is made by STV International
Ltd
2002 at Little Cressingham in Norfolk. This will help the situation for
the
gardener who likes to see the fruits of his labour AND the wild birds
which
come.

Mike
who has a cat crap free garden :-))))))))))))))))))))))))


I know someone who breeds parrots in 2 large bans. The barns are infested
with huge flocks of parrots who come into the aviaries and steal the parrot
food. He was losing some 20% of food to the sparows at one time and the risk
of them spreading disease was great. Now he classes them as vermin and
employs someone to come and shoot them by the score.
Odd how some people class one lot of animals as 'vermin' and like anothe
lot, and someone else classes what the first lot like, as vermin.

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House sparrow population has declined by about 50% since 1970.

......Damned statistics!
I think that 1970 figure coincided with a peak in the sparrow
population.
So the current low may not be quite as dramatic as is put about.

--
ned

http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk
last update 08.03.2005

"Harry" wrote in message
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Just managed to get into the garden for the first time this week, where
are
all the sparrows, is it just my garden, or me.
Anyone who has to many send them up to the north east, I have plenty of
food.

Harry



I have loads of them. Whole flocks sit in the hawthorn hedge in the morning
waiting fo me to chuck some corn to the chickens and geese and them too.
There must be around 80-100 at a time and also hedge sparrows (Dunnocks).
Don't tell feloginistic Mike but I also have 12 cats. Cats don't touch the
birds though.

Don't tell feloginistic Mike but I also have 12 cats.

It has been stated on this newsgroup many many times, that people who have
cats, have 'multiple' cats. Does anyone admit to having TWELVE DOGS?

I will now watch the paint dry

I will now watch the paint dry


Thank you all for your imput,I may give the cat repeller ago, the woman next
door to me has little boxes that she keeps cats in, 7 of the little s****.

Harry

In article , Harry
writes


I will now watch the paint dry


Thank you all for your imput,I may give the cat repeller ago, the woman next
door to me has little boxes that she keeps cats in, 7 of the little s****.

When I arrived in my new home in Surrey, I was pleased to hear the
sparrows twittering. The next year they had gone.

Now there are masses of them. Reason? Long, high, thick hedges,
trees. School children feeding birds perhaps. There was a gap of about
2 years. I did get the top of my hedge cut off but it was still 6 feet
high.

Plenty of cats around but they do not seem to catch birds.
I think there is more feeding of birds here, perhaps using different
foods. I put out (in a wire container) a fatty suety confection with
berries in it and I have had a wide selection of birds feeding, not many
sparrows though. Food attached under revolving clothes drier. Probably
mostly starlings, tits, robins.

I have not seen the squirrel that was very clever at reaching
everything!

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Rosalind Walter