Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

I was pleasantly surprised to see a sparrow on my bird feeder today. It came back several times to fill its beak with seeds and a spare bit of yorkshire pudding.
Hopefully it will become a regular visitor

 

[HertzvanRental]

I was pleasantly surprised to see a sparrow on my bird feeder today. It came back several times to fill its beak with seeds and a spare bit of yorkshire pudding.
Hopefully it will become a regular visitor

I assume that a visit from a sparrow is unusual?

 

[stephec]

Name it after your mother in law.

Only if she wouldn't find out.

 

[raleighnut]

At least they did it in the cool of the evening. A warm summers day, with the windows closed, would have most complaining, Its the pig - - - - that sticks in your throat though.

Just you wait until the sun gets on it tomorrow, unless they plough it in it'll be 'ripe' til the next rain.

 

[classic33]

Just you wait until the sun gets on it tomorrow, unless they plough it in it'll be 'ripe' til the next rain.

They've only just started. Plenty more - - - - spreading to yet. And there's a heatwave forecast this week.

 

[mybike]

I have cut my hair. It's the usual "give it a fortnight and all will be well"...

Probably 4 months till mine'll need it.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I assume that a visit from a sparrow is unusual?

Oddly enough, sparrows disappeared from around here down by the Thames about 4 or 5 years ago and you'd have to climb to about 50 metres above the Thames to see them. I've read different theories about why this happened but I don't think there was ever an accepted explanation. Over the last 2 years they've started reintroducing themselves though. And, while they were almost a nuisance before, it's now a relief to see and hear them again. This afternoon I was at my mother's, where, after refilling the seed feeder, it was a pleasure to see a mother taking seeds to its just-out-of-the-nest offspring. There's a church wall opposite where birds have dug holes and lived there for over 50 years. They disappeared but they're now back in the empty nest spaces.

EDIT: It was only after posting that I realised that this wasn't the wildlife thread.... Oh well, no harm done....

 

[HertzvanRental]

Oddly enough, sparrows disappeared from around here down by the Thames about 4 or 5 years ago and you'd have to climb to about 50 metres above the Thames to see them. I've read different theories about why this happened but I don't think there was ever an accepted explanation. Over the last 2 years they've started reintroducing themselves though. And, while they were almost a nuisance before, it's now a relief to see and hear them again. This afternoon I was at my mother's, where, after refilling the seed feeder, it was a pleasure to see a mother taking seeds to its just-out-of-the-nest offspring. There's a church wall opposite where birds have dug holes and lived there for over 50 years. They disappeared but they're now back in the empty nest spaces.

Good news. I have dozens of Starlings in the garden-friends the other end of town rarely see them.

 

[summerdays]

I rarely see starlings certainly not in the numbers I saw as a child. However there are always house sparrows around including nesting in the eaves of my house.... They can be noisy in the morning. They seem to prefere the front of the house, whereas the dunnock prefers the back of the house.

 

[Hill Wimp]

It's swallow city where i live.

 

[raleighnut]

Oddly enough, sparrows disappeared from around here down by the Thames about 4 or 5 years ago and you'd have to climb to about 50 metres above the Thames to see them. I've read different theories about why this happened but I don't think there was ever an accepted explanation. Over the last 2 years they've started reintroducing themselves though. And, while they were almost a nuisance before, it's now a relief to see and hear them again. This afternoon I was at my mother's, where, after refilling the seed feeder, it was a pleasure to see a mother taking seeds to its just-out-of-the-nest offspring. There's a church wall opposite where birds have dug holes and lived there for over 50 years. They disappeared but they're now back in the empty nest spaces.

They were becoming endangered but are now coming back, we've got a large (extended) family that nest in the ivy up the side of the house and the second clutch this year have just fledged so they may get 3 in this year.
Maz puts food out (on the feeders, we have got cats) throughout the year and they roost in the ivy all winter.

 

[PeteXXX]

I assume that a visit from a sparrow is unusual?

Interesting reading others posts regarding sparrows.
Yes, sadly it is unusual here. They were once one of the most common birds so it is nice to see one!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Interesting reading others posts regarding sparrows.
Yes, sadly it is unusual here. They were once one of the most common birds so it is nice to see one!

With luck, your sparrow is relaying seeds to fledglings as I've been watching them do for a couple of weeks whenever I'm over at my mother's.

 

[raleighnut]

Interesting reading others posts regarding sparrows.
Yes, sadly it is unusual here. They were once one of the most common birds so it is nice to see one!

They were becoming endangered but are now coming back, we've got a large (extended) family that nest in the ivy up the side of the house and the second clutch this year have just fledged so they may get 3 in this year.
Maz puts food out (on the feeders, we have got cats) throughout the year and they roost in the ivy all winter.

Around 35-40 can be around at once.
Sometimes the cats have got one but not very often, they're a bit like the Meerkats of the birds in that there are always 2-3 on 'sentry' duty.

 

[PeteXXX]

With luck, your sparrow is relaying seeds to fledglings as I've been watching them do for a couple of weeks whenever I'm over at my mother's.

Hopefully so...