Many visitors to the reserve comment on just how many House Sparrows we have around our two centre feeding stations and bemoan the fact that they now have none and we must have pinched them all!
When i first started on the reserve over ten years ago we used to record every single House Sparrow that we saw. They were either alongside the railway or out faraging along the river wall for insects in the summer but only on ones or twos.
Now, with continued feeding by us and I would like to think, the support of local people with the provision of nest boxes and food, we have a fantastic population that continues to grow and seem capable of bringing off several broods a year per pair.
This can only bode well for this much declined and unappreciated little bird.
Mrs Spogger in the car park hedge..... one of the community hubs for our colony. - Les Harrison
Part of the flock searching for insects along the river wall... HTV
So much character - Tony Orwell
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer
You could "spare us" 1 or 2. .. .
I love them, but can't attract them to the garden no matter what I do.