[Closed] Where are the birds?

Been eaten by all the massive buzzards and kites. I live on the edge of the chilterns and they're everywhere

Judging by the Blue Bottle buzzing around the other day they have plenty of food to eat as it is so mild.

We had a Robin singing at 8'clock last night. I think maybe the wind has kept them grounded around here today.

Seen them flying backwards in the high winds in Greenham common today on my spin out 😯

The French have eaten them all.

Yep, my fat balls aren't tempting anyone apart from an angry looking robin. Nature is all going a bit wonky at the moment, we have blossom trees flowering, spring bulbs poking through.

In the Maxxis calendar?

Oh, sorry.

my fat balls aren't tempting anyone

Story of my life 🙁

We have a few in the garden on the feeders every day, wife saw a woodpecker in the garden for the first time last week. I guess the mild weather means there is plenty of natural food out there, so they have less need to use feeders.

Been eaten by all the massive buzzards and kites. I live on the edge of the chilterns and they're everywhere

Judging by the Blue Bottle buzzing around the other day they have plenty of food to eat as it is so mild.

Ours is busy as...recent visitors Chaffinch, Robin, Blackbird, Yellow Hammer, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Black Cap, Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Dunnock, Starling, Sparrowhawk, Pheasant.

Sparrowhawk putting in daily spectacular appearances. I'm developing a Sparrowhawk third sense and always seem to be in the right place at the right time!

I know what you mean OP. Similar at home on the coast, I fill the feeders every week and a peanut feeder too. Whilst we do have lots of birds in out garden, they don't seem to want to eat a great deal. I think it's because they've got more than enough to eat.
I wouldn't worry too much, once the cold spell hits they'll be scoffing all they can..

Buzzards and kites have no interest in your garden birds unless they are already dead, if then even.

Lots of garden birds here in my parent's garden near Inverness. There are dozens of red kites around here and more buzzards than you can shake a scope at.

Been eaten by all the massive buzzards and kites. I live on the edge of the chilterns and they're everywhere

Loads of magpies round our way in suburban Cambridge which seem to scare off most songbirds. Counted 13 on the roof opposite a while ago. Clever beggars too. We have a resident robin and wren and goldfinches will suddenly appear but the seeds in the feeders are sprouting at the moment. A sparrowhawk is also a regular visitor which probably doesn't help- found a load of feathers and blood outside the front door the other day!

Rwrinkly - same here with the sprouting seeds. I have to go out every other day to weed them so seeds fall into the hopper.

Update: we did have a rather charming, ahem, charm of goldfinches in our sycamore yesterday.
Twenty plus and very noisy.

Put some wet bread out earlier but just enticed a shower of shitty precinct pigeons.

Cats

An urban blight for our birds and small mammals

The warm weather certainly seems to be confusing them, we are hearing song birds at night/dawn when normally at this time of year they've all gone. Also my mates mum said there have been no migratory birds arriving from Russia/Scandanvia into Norfolk, again due to the weather

All I have in my garden is three pigeons which seem to like my tree as a perch. I think the summer visitors have migrated.

We've got two robins and two blackbirds that are having a party in our garden for about 18 hours every day.
Sometimes together the dirty little buggers.

I've got the UK's population of sparrows and starlings in my garden as usual.

I find they all bugger off late summer and it's eerily quiet, but then a month later they're back in force.

Other than that I get the odd magpies, collared doves (posh pigeons) and blue tits (tits... fnar).

I've given up buying bird seed. It's too expensive. I put it out and it's gone 24 hours later. There's an army of 21 sparrows living in the hedgerows.

Very quiet in my garden at the moment, a couple of pigeons, robin and earlier in the week four or five long tail tits.

nuts yes...sunflower seed no. plenty of birds out and about.. first year i have noticed the parakeets singing at 11 pm grrr. still its better than living on the african plain

Bizarrely, two bluetits have been viewing our nest box this morning. One even went inside. This weather is definitely confusing the flora and fauna. Ive also seen collared doves doing that wooing manoeuvre where they fly upwards and then coast down. Odd.

Temperatures are so high that they can feed naturally most of the time, had Blue, Coal, Great & Long Tailed Tits, Robins, Blackbirds, Nuthatch and Wrens on the table last few days though, soon as the cold hits they'll be back.

Distinct lack of finches though.

They have flown to Monton, the back garden has been full of them. Totally ignoring the seeds, had a flock of tiny birds razzing about yesterday.

I've given up buying bird seed. It's too expensive. I put it out and it's gone 24 hours later.

Isn't that the point?

had a flock of tiny birds razzing about yesterday.

Are you sure they weren't midges? 😮

Had a bunch of goldfinches the last few days, some sparrows, chaffinch, bluetit, and four sodding pigeons, greedy buggers! I keep moving the feeders around, trying to find a position where the pigeons can't stand and plunder the contents.
Oddly enough, I went down to the Avalon Marshes Tuesday, and there weren't many birds around, or at least, not the more exotic/interesting ones. Lots of lapwings, and ducks, (always loads of those), but only one great white egret in the distance, and a couple of marsh harriers early on. The starlings were very disappointing, coming in very late, as it was getting dark, and very low in smallish flocks.
A lot of people went away very disappointed indeed.

An observation from the sunny climate of Hampshire Coastline.. 😆

As mentioned above, I'm still lacking many Birds in the garden. I fill the feeders up and a few tweets will pop in and scoff a bit, but no where near the flock during late Nov/Dec.. It's like they've all gone somewhere less warm and balmy 😆 Actually I thought this time of year they'd be flocking back into the garden to scoff the seeds, but sadly there are only a few.
I sometimes see a pair of Robins, some Goldcrests and Blue Tits, a mating pair of Blackbirds ( that were born here so always come back) and the two fat pigeons who again were born on the tree so always come back..
But thats it.

I've just changed the seeds in the feeders again, them being all soggy and needed cleaning/refilling but the huge torpedo thingy was still 2/3rds full of mouldy wet seeds..

So fingers crossed and they'll all flock back in again, I live in hope.

I think they have all gone nocturnal, all the blackbirds around Newcastle are having midnight sing-along parties.

Loads in my garden. Usual masses of sparrows and starlings.

I find it's late summer where they disappear for a month, then suddenly a mass invasion of them.

Depends on the time of day. Dead quiet during the day, but between dawn and 9 / 10ish, they're going nuts for my nuts 😀

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Birds are more or less in the same numbers in our garden.

I even saw a tree creeper crawling up next doors wall last week. It was eating the spiders from around the security light.

There was a baby wood pigeon here yesterday and lots of flirting going on among robins, dunnnocks and bluetits.

I've taken the nyjer (sp?) seed feeder in cos they were sprouting. Not a Goldfinch in sight. Got loads of Spuggies & TITS! of varying sorts, can't even coax a Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Siskin or Redpoll. 7 feeders with various stuff in too. 😥

was out for a walk down the lakes yesterday and had the privileged of watching a flock of about 5000 lapwings most I've seen in a long while. Really enchanting as they twist and turn.