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Where have all the London sparrows Gone?
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James | Report | 14 Mar 2006 08:48 |
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Have they emigrated to Cornwall, because it is so cheap to live there? |
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Conan | Report | 14 Mar 2006 08:51 |
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No James............... they all seem to be in my back garden in Essex. |
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James | Report | 14 Mar 2006 08:55 |
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We seem to have magpies,crows, thrushes and sea gulls and of course pigeons. James |
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Joy | Report | 14 Mar 2006 08:57 |
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They are not in Dorset, James. At present we only have robins and magpies. :-) |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 14 Mar 2006 13:38 |
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actually I seemed to notice an increase in sparrows last year after they had been declining for some time. I will have to keep an eye out and let you know! Maz. XX |
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Bob | Report | 14 Mar 2006 13:43 |
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Hi James We have quite a few in Norfolk, the house sparrows seemed to increase last year. The hedge sparrows disappeared last year and now they are back as well. |
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Wendy | Report | 14 Mar 2006 13:48 |
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Hi James, they are up here in lincolnshire,loads in my garden and in the little village where i shop. have a lovely woodpecker visiting ,and 2 enormous male pheasants,plus robins greenfinch blackbirds and starlings and wren and thrushes ringneck doves and wood pidgeon, blue and great tit,longtails too,.and at dusk a barn owl swoops across the field behind us,i had a barn owl fly across my car bonnet on the way home from work last week. we had fieldfare and redwings a few weeks back,i tend to watch the birds a lot,well it beats housework etc. best wishes wendy |
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Racey | Report | 14 Mar 2006 13:57 |
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I agree with Keith they all seem to be in various gardens in Essex. Although we do get a good variety! sx |
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John half a scot | Report | 14 Mar 2006 14:44 |
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They probably all left because they didn't want to pay red Kens congestion charge John |
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Little Lost | Report | 14 Mar 2006 14:54 |
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we heard a woodpecker the other day in a Lincolnshire wood. My mum also has a couple of robins in her garden in Lincolnshire |
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James | Report | 14 Mar 2006 17:22 |
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Last year I saw a Red fox at Edmonton Railway Station strolling into the bushes outside the station by a main road James |
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Unknown | Report | 14 Mar 2006 17:49 |
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James, Sparrows are grain eaters and there's probably not enough for them to eat on the streets of London now. They're probably in parks and gardens instead. When I lived in London many years ago, there were thousands of sparrows, but there probably aren's enough nesting sites now, with all the huge buildings that have gone up . Here in Herts, we get lots of them because I feed the birds, but our neighbour's cat, magpies and sparrowhawks all take their toll of the smaller ones. CB >|< |
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