Where did the birds go?

We have lots of bird feeders in the garden and this year we’ve had an abundance of small birds. We had bluetits, greattits, long tailed tits 4 pairs of sparrows and a couple of robins. Then all the tits that had been there since last year, all over winter and early spring disappeared. Is this purely likely to be that they didn’t want to nest near my garden so all went somewhere else? The sparrows have all had babies and are on the feeders every day but I’ve not seen a single one of the others. Any ideas? 

  • i have a good number of sparrows now and they did make a difference to the small tits. great tits dont have a problem with sparrows and look after themselves very well, i bought a squirrel proof extra feeder and adapted it so sparrows cant get in. after a couple of days my my small tit population was back to normal. billf