Quote Originally Posted by SRV1 View Post
In our local area, over the last 20 years the numerous bird species have declined, a pleasure was to be had waking to their morning singing......Now, it is dominated by Magpies and Crows, one is lucky to see the odd Robin. The seagulls were a pain in the arse, especially on rubbish collection days, but, thankfully have moved on as the recycling containers are robust enough to deter destruction.
Same here, see loads of magpies, jays, jackdaws but only very few blue, great and long tailed tits, odd sparrow and blackbird plus a few other species, used to see bullfinches as old orchard behind back garden, mistle and plain thrushes