Hi
We live in Sussex in house on modern but small estate near the countryside - and have failry busy road at back of garden but not a fast road. Feeders are not that near to the house, and they are full of all sorts of goodies !!!
I have feeders up at all previous houses and have always had lots of birds, but none come to this garden.
Have had Robin on odd occasion but not even Starlings even tho i know they are there as they sit on the roofs in the morning making a din !
rather upset by this !
any ideas why ?
Hi Topsy and welcome , the answer could be the same as my question on great tits, it is still warm and there is still food for them elsewhere, you may have to wait till it gets colder then you should see birds.
It seem that disappearing birds are a common problem for a lot of people! Perhaps all those who have noticed this can keep us posted if they start to reappear when the weather gets colder, as has been suggested? It would be interesting to see if this is, in fact, the case.
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games [Robert Falcon Scott]
Being used to a huge catalogue of birds where I used to live I found this house very disappointing when I got here seven years ago. But, although I only see 'pretty' birds now and again, last year and more this I'm swamped with sparrows and starlings (who had completely vanished in my last house). I'm literally only a hundred yards from a wood so I know there are masses of birds around but it takes them a very long time to trust us I suppose. One thing that did seem to help, although that wasn't the idea, was when I reseeded a bald patch of lawn about 18 months ago. It must have proved I wasn't out to poison them I suppose, but it definitely attracted a lot of visitors! What other people have said about the natural food supply seems right to me, by the way, my sparrows and even the blackbird family behind the shed, are only mobbing the feeders once or sometimes twice a week now, although in the summer months they emptied four seed feeders, two fat ball feeders and a table (I started a bad habit when my bird-loving dad died of buying a bird feeder to commemerate the death of a friend/family member so have far too many now!) at least once a day for a while. I actually wonder if I've caused the local sparow population to out-populate the natural food available so make sure there's always something out for them now. Anyway, take heart, it was five whole years when all I saw was the blackbirds from time to time, one robin 2or3 times and not much else. They will come to your feeders, possibly quicker than they did to mine if you don't have a wood so close and a big lake about 2 minutes flying time away (a ten minute hard foot slog for humans!)