Do you happen to have a pair of birds that are... just friendly? (The Birds 1963)
I might try feeding the birds this winter as I have never seen any in our garden. It's not entirely altruistic as I read that they will help considerably with pest control over the winter.
The lack of birds (LOB) situation on our locale, is not that surprising, because of the Lack of Trees (LOT) but more importantly, the high feline-count in our neighbourhood. The main culprits I suspect are the pair of Bully Cats that use our fence as part of an assault course. Said bullies were once a sweet-looking pair of fluffy tabby kittens that slept in our tall weeds. They have matured into nasty, starring, hissing beasts, that we renamed, 'Ronnie and Reggie'. Their crimes include chewing the Osteospermums, digging up the Passiflora twice and making the otherwise slow old ginger cat Ollie run-scared. Pitch Puppy agrees that they are pure evil. I know this because Ronnie and Reggie are the only creatures that make Puppy buck on his hindlegs, race from the house skidding and barking "Ro-ro Ro!" to defend his territory.
I digress. Back to feeding birds: I'll put a feeder out with sunflower seeds out, in a place where they hopefully cannot be bullied by the Kray Twin Cats, and join the ranks of 60% of British garden owners who feed birds 60,000 tons annually. Cor, that's a thousand tons per percentage point.
Apparently greenfinch, house and tree sparrows will flock in.
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