Hi hope you don't mind, I have just looked at your photo's on Flickr, they are fabulous x
Hi Gaynor and welcome from me in West Lothian. I also have got plenty House Sparrows and Starlings coming to my garden. It's such a shame that they are in serious decline elsewhere.
Paul
My bird photos HERE
We've a bird count too on the 25/26 january. We had about 40 greenfinches in today so if they hang around that'll be a good start. I'll have to increase their rations. LOL
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Wow, fabulous number :)
Evening Gaynor and welcome from me too (in Cheshire) I have plenty of different birds visiting the garden but unfortnately no sparrows or even starlings although I have seen them a just couple of miles away.
I will also be participating in the Big Garden Birdwatch at the end of the month so it will be feeders full and a batch of raw cheese pastry which most of the birds love ..... you should try it out on your sparrows !!
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Regards, Hazel
Welcome from me in Berkshire, Gaynor.
Until about 3 years ago Sparrows had disappeared from my garden. I think someone locally put up a Sparrow terrace and now I see up to half a dozen but they are by no means numerous.
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Tony
My Flickr Photostream
Hi Gaynor and welcome from Mitcham in Surrey. I rarely have more than one or two Sparrows during the Winter months (same with Starlings) and then come mid-May they descend on the garden and the place is a chattering mass of brown feathers until about October when they disappear once more. If the BGBW took place in May, I could put a total of 100 House Sparrows. As it is, the total will most likely be zero.
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)