10 Million Missing House Sparrows

Thanks Buzzard.

These little birds are an asset in anyones garden. I am lucky to have a healthy colony in mine, and I can't tell you how much pleasure their antics give me, especially the fledglings in the summer. Beautiful little birds, and so cheerful all day. They deserve our support, and I am contributing to the appeal.

Thanks from me also Buzzard. As Sparrow knows, in ten years of living here I have seen only one House Sparrow (a male) on only the one occasion. And that was in 2009! It is a very puzzling and worrying situation as, when I look around the back gardens of the other houses in the vicinity, it isn't as though they have all been put down to decking or concrete. There are plenty of trees, plenty of shrubs - you'd think it would be ideal for them but for some unknown reason they simply aren't around here. 

Susan H said:

Thanks Buzzard.

These little birds are an asset in anyones garden. I am lucky to have a healthy colony in mine, and I can't tell you how much pleasure their antics give me, especially the fledglings in the summer. Beautiful little birds, and so cheerful all day. They deserve our support, and I am contributing to the appeal.

I completely echo what Sparrow has said.  These are a wonderful little bird that need our help and support, sometimes I think they get forgotten about over other species, that are probably considered more exciting by some.

I for one don't want to see these little characters down into their hundreds before they're helped.  My support is fully with this appeal.

I only see them in the hedgerows and very rarely in our garden. I, and others I know, always put seed under the hedges as we walk by. This appeal has my full support. To me, they are very much 'the British Bird'.

It's good to see they are increasing up here (Scotland).

My aunt has a colony, but their numbers seem stable possibly as there is no more space for them to nest on that part of the roof and for whatever reason they don't seem keen on moving to the other parts of the roof, they just like the tiny part on the east side!  Perhaps I'll buy her a house sparrow box though, see if we can encourage a few more to nest :-)

Hi,

I have loadsa House sparrows in the vicinity of my house but they all nest in local house roofs or barn walls.

They don't seem to use nest boxes- maybe cos the standard hole size is ' Blue tit'  and maybe you'd need enough boxes to make a colony to get their attention?

S

I'm lucky to have a good amount around my garden and where I work too! Can't imagine them not being about.... very sad! Hope it doesn't ever come to that.