FIELD BIRDS AT RECORD LOW… The Sun: 2011 January 2nd – The UK’s farmland bird populations have fallen to a record low official figures showed yesterday. “In England alone the numbers of 19 species which rely on farmland for food and breeding have ‘dropped’ by more than half since 1970.” Tree sparrows, yellow wagtails, corn […]
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
“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 […]
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Blackbird 2010: BTO- ‘‘Huge falls have been recorded for our well loved” – British Blackbird! Blackbirds a true – ‘All-year-round’ Garden Songbird with the greatest of songs. They nest in ivy low hedges bushes.So start planting to help increase their numbers. Females creamy throat slightly streaked chest brown body who sing quietly. Males deep black […]
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The Magpie on the other hand, is an omnivorous opportunist capable of wiping out local populations of Garden Songbirds and Sparrows. Not ‘eating’ them always but just for killings sake. For most ‘food’ to eat. Magpies then turn to other resources such as dog litter, takeaway food, any dead animal or human leftovers, etc. British […]
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