Where have all the birds gone and why? (3 Viewers)

[Vikdikdok]

They are eating the sparrows, they are eating the seagulls, they are eating your pet budgie - ( according to you know who)

 

[TheAleMan]

Possibly hiding whilst renewing worn out feathers. They are vulnerable at that time. We seem to have about the same number as usual for this time of year

This

 

[dryad]

Drat, and I've just paid my home insurance. Needn't have bothered!

oh well, if the end of the world happens you wouldn't have been able to spend it elsewhere anyway..

 

[Simon Meadwell]

Grey squirrels eating eggs in nests

 

[Gingernuts]

Sorry my cat is responsible for at least one dead robin yesterday! It was presented to me as a “gift”first thing in the morning before I got my slippers on

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[swemmy666]

Cat owners often don’t help.

There are too many domestic cats allowed to roam beyond their boundaries here in London, and that is without taking into account those without owners.
I watch my neighbours cat hiding below fences waiting to pounce on sparrows etc

I don’t know why it is considered OK for someone’s pet to decimate wildlife or defecate in other peoples back gardens or jump all over other peoples cars

Like dogs, I love well all behaved pets.


It’s the owners that I have problems with

Thinking you can manage a cat like a dog, never going to work. There is a expression "like herding cats" for something that is impossible to do..

 

[Oldrat]

Are you abrogating the owners responsibility?

 

[Gingernuts]

Thinking you can manage a cat like a dog, never going to work. There is a expression "like herding cats" for something that is impossible to do..

My neighbour a prolific gardener complained that the cat would go to the toilet in his newly prepared border! I bought him a super soaker water gun from Argos and he only had to pump it up for the cat to disappear no need for water!

 

[swemmy666]

Are you abrogating the owners responsibility?

you think cats are owned? they tolerate us for the food and lodging we give for free, they are not a wolf who runs in packs

 

[Oldrat]

You’d like to think so

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[HKF]

In our garden and field, in France, we've seen a reduction in the number of birds this year up to about 3 days ago, when they all re-appeared. We now have lots and lots of them again, which is great. I've no idea where they've all been. Butterfly numbers are up this year but we've seen fewer bees and wasps. Fly numbers are about the same (I know this because most of them die in our Red Top fly traps ).

The saddest news of all is that a little Robin died this morning when he flew into our window. He died instantly. I have been able to bring round a couple of birds who have done the same in the past by holding them close to me until they recover from the shock but this little guy this morning didn't have a chance

Recently, we drove from here to the UK and back and noticed how few flies, midges etc were on the car. Something is definitely changing from how it used to be.

 

[Nanniemate]

I get the odd bird fly onto the patio doors
They don't do it when the window blind is down 1/3 .it seems to stop them thinking they can fly straight through. None died.only shunned. I leave them alone and they soon fly off

 

[Gina M]

We used to have birds singing all day in our garden then all of a sudden it went quiet. I have had pigeons nesting for years in a tree next to the bedroom window, one night for some reason it hit the bedroom window which I was surprised but in the morning I found it's wing on the grass and a few nights later looked out of the window and a Sparrow Hawk had the other one on the lawn and was tearing it to pieces, it was headless. Since then I hardly ever hear birdsong so I thought that was why they had disappeared. So sad

 

[Nanniemate]

We used to have birds singing all day in our garden then all of a sudden it went quiet. I have had pigeons nesting for years in a tree next to the bedroom window, one night for some reason it hit the bedroom window which I was surprised but in the morning I found it's wing on the grass and a few nights later looked out of the window and a Sparrow Hawk had the other one on the lawn and was tearing it to pieces, it was headless. Since then I hardly ever hear birdsong so I thought that was why they had disappeared. So sad

Sparrow hawk arrived at brothers all the little birds hid in the hedges and travelled to nest boxes under cover. They stayed away from feeding stations .
After a week.or so the sparrow hawk got hungry and moved on .
The birds returned to the grass and the feeders as soon as it left .