I Blame Alan Titchmarsh

[poliphilo]

They say there are fewer small birds around this winter.  I was going to write a post about it-  echoing the official line that it's all our fault for paving over our suburban gardens and planting leylandii- which discourages insects, which discourages birds- only there were no fewer than seven sparrows on our feeder yesterday- which is as many as I've ever seen- so I'm not altogether sure it's true.

Mind you, there's still the aesthetic argument.  Patios are hideous and leylandii boring-  so dig 'em up,  people, please!

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[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

And the small birds were probably drowned in their nests over the summer!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We had a blackbird raise two batches of fledglings in our ivy this summer.