SongbirdsSlaughter

“I Was A Proud Protector Of Five Baby Blackbirds With Two Just Having Landed Heavily Onto The Ground Though Quickly Getting The Right Way Up – From Out Of Their Nest In My Ivy.” The parents having worked twenty hours a day for over ten weeks to get to this their big day when the elder chicks ‘want […]

REDSTART= FLASHING LONG AND Constantly Quivering up-and-down Red-Orange Tails. WITH A Black bill wings and legs. Along with a bright red-orange chest and rump. Our OH SO RARE poor little beauty… Very Handsome Summer Male – With blue-grey upper-parts, striking black face throat. White forehead eyebrows and under-parts. Redstarts ‘bob’ in a very robin-like manner. […]

Songbird Numbers Down. Predators Up. So… if we want to hear the dawn chorus, we cannot avoid taking unpleasant action. What has really happened to our farmland birds? Their numbers have fallen by 53 per cent over 40 years even though we are now throwing £1 billion a year into conservation.The Times 2011 January By Nick […]

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trusts Corvid Research Project for which the songbird charity SongBird Survival is providing funding. This IS the ‘First-Ever’ experimental study examining the impact record numbers of the crow family are having on Songbird numbers. 2011 Fieldsports: Spring. Cash required for Corvid (Crow family) – New Research on Predation ‘killing’ – Photo: […]

“Tourist Bug Is Linked to Ape Deaths” – 2011 March 30th: Metro ‘Two Rare Mountain Gorillas Have Died In The Wild From A Human Virus Raising Fears That Eco-tourism Is Harming Their Environment. The Adult Female And HER Newborn Were Part Of An 750-Strong Troop.’ Living in Rwanda made famous by the researcher Dian Fossey […]

Bearded Tit= Lively colourful characters performing as reedbed clowns acrobats with crazy Zapata moustaches eye tufts and long trailing tails. Gorgous looking so glamourous our lovely Bearded Tit.Breeds and winters in reedbeds flying rapidly over. Sociable with high ‘ping’ calls. Vulnerable to severe winters and their populations have ‘Scandalously’ -‘Tragically’ declined. WHAT A DREADFUL WASTE… […]

Nuthatch= Plump and lively running up and down tree trunks.Nuthatch – Only British Songbird to descend head down-wards. ‘Habit of wedging nuts into crevices then hammering them open.’ Seldom far from trees and woodland. Nest – Uses mud to smear around tree hole or nest box entrance to make the entrance smaller for them. “Amiable […]

Help Spread the Word – ‘Save Our Garden Songbirds.’ Before it’s All Too Late. Before Its – All ‘Their’ Extinction…! Think. Care. Do Something…? Songbirds-Slaughter. With ‘You Tube’ videos – View: Further Below. – 2011 August 6th. VIEW TOPICS – Your Lost Birds-& RSPB – This page is there for you to see the Songbirds that […]

This Daily Mail article written in 2006 shows alarming figures. Showing the impact that the common Grey Squirrel has on Garden Songbird numbers.‘The research was carried out on behalf of the charity Songbird Survival by Professor Roy Brown at Birckbeck University, London.’ Cont: Photos: Sand Martin= Excavate river banks digging out a long tunnel for […]

  ‘BIRDBRAINED’ REALITY THOUGHTS FROM AN INSTINCTIVE LONDON OBSERVERS URBAN BACKYARD. In our empty shorn backyard with all its dead looking plants bare twigs and empty pots. The only greenery is the lush spreading ivy to soften the appearance of brickwork – 2011 February 24th. Photos: Bearded Tit: – Lively colourful characters performing as reed-bed clowns acrobats […]