Have you got sparrows?

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My DM and I both consider there are fewer sparrows than we would expect to see, in our separate gardens.

Are there sparrows in your garden? My theory is more people than ever are feeding the birds so there are fewer to go round. She thinks a rise in cat ownership is killing them off.

Yes we have loads of sparrows- we have a large hedge and a large hydrangea which are home to very many cheeky sparrows. I love hearing them chattering and squabbling and often watch them for far too long when I should be working! Yesterday they were ice skating on a table that had a frozen patch of water on the top. We have dogs and chickens and the sparrows pay no heed and definitely rule the roost. We have other birds too (blue tit, robins, blackbirds etc) but the sparrows are my favourite!

Yes but not many. Quite a few starlings and blackbirds though, as well as a couple of robins, some wrens, a few blue- and great-tits and a pair of collared doves.

We have loads! Also dunnocks, blackbirds, robin, blue tits and coal tits. Pigeons, starlings, jackdaws, collared doves. We once saw a woodpecker. And hordes of squirrels.

Never see house sparrows here- West Midlands - apart from a pair nesting in next door's eaves every spring. May be a different pair each year of course! Very odd.
Starlings hardly ever. There's been a fairly serious decline in sparrows over the last few decades according to the RSPB. I remember loads of them around when I was a child.
We get plenty of other species but not sparrows.

Lots of dunnocks, finches, blue, great, coal, long tailed tits, nuthatches, wrens. Robins too. But no sparrows.

Loads, when i managed to count i had 27

We have a succession of birds to a tree in our garden where we have a variety of feed stations. In the garden we have seen: great tits, blue tits, coal tits, long tailed tits, goldfinches, bullfinches, robins, dunnocks, nut hatches, thrushes, blackbirds, wood pigeon, magpies, crows, 2 jays, wrens, sparrow hawks, woodpeckers, herring gulls and tawny owls. There was also one gold crest that I never knew existed till my cat brought one in dead and I got the Birds of the British Isles book out to check what it was

We have never, ever, seen a sparrow (or any starlings). Out for a walk this afternoon and we passed a bush that was filled with sparrows making a huge racket no more than 200m away as the sparrow flies!

No not here. My neighbour moved recently and said that’s pretty much all she sees now which feels strange to her not having seen them for ages.

Yep - a few sparrows, a couple of robins, a couple of green finch, one chaffinch (last year battered himself against my window daily), wood pigeons, collared doves

But what I have most of is goldfinch, at least 8 at a time, squabbling over the feeder - and if I don't keep it full, then they swoop in front of the window until I fill it.

Blackbirds are back too, last summer they got so cheeky I could put a dish of sultanas in the house and they would come in for them,

I get loads of them, and hundreds of blackbirds, who like to pull moss off the roof abs drop it all over my car! I’m Derbyshire

I know where all the sparrows went... my house. We have a pyracanthus bush blocking in front of the kitchen window and the neighbours have a 5m high holly bush and they spend their time in one or the other of them. They stripped it of berries in the autumn and when they were finished I started putting out fat balls for them. They go through about 2 fat balls a day. It's awesome being able to see them close up. It also means that the actual garden round the back is free for blue tits and great tits, the odd robin and blackbird. I saw a female chaffinch the other day which was really cool - we live really near a forest but very rarely see any chaffinches down in the garden.

Have we got sparrows???

The hedge outside our house is positively swarming with them!

(Hants).