Did you take part in this survey and if so what did you find?

BBC NEWS | UK | Finches buck trend in UK gardens

I took part, although my garden this year was not the 'norm' as it was flooded out last summer and is still recovering. Generally my findings reflected the trend. While I had fewer numbers of the more common bird I did get more rarities than usual. We do get an awful lot of crows and magpies (sometimes as many as 12 or more sitting on the roof) which tend to take eggs and hatchlings they periodically fight amongst themselves. Several robins and a whole squadron of green finches, a couple of blackbirds and thrushes fewer than normal blue tits, the occasional goldfinch, green woodpecker, hawfinch and house sparrow. Being in the countryside we also get the odd sparrowhawk and kestrel

I think one of the reasons we get more songbirds is that we live in a cat free zone. The last cat in the village picked a fight with a rural fox and lost big time (they are not the same as the urban foxes who just raid bins for food).

__________________
Pone ubi sol non lucet!