have your birds come back to your garden?

[WillowTit]

i tend to have two fat pigeons sitting on the fence and i saw a wren recently
but the sparrows and robins have not yet returned.
i stopped feeding for a few weeks
but have a couple of fat balls out,
no takers

Lots of pigeons and a family of crows visit regularly. I hear the robin now and again but don't always see it. Earlier in the year I had hundreds of starlings and some sparrows visiting the bird table but they must have found another food source as I haven't seen them for months. I got my mum a little ground level bird table that has a cage over it to stop large birds stealing everything. She gets tons of sparrows and a robin visiting daily.

I've recently moved to a much more spartan garden and I’m worried there won’t be any birds. I will fill my feeder up and see if there are any takers? The birds round here are very fussy and won’t eat fat balls! I haven’t seen any apart from one fat wood pigeon combing the grass.

We had so many lovely little birds, chaffinch, blue tits, robin lots of blackbirds. Then we had so many pigeons, magpies and crows and the little birds stopped coming. I have a caged ground feeder so the bigger birds can’t get in and a hanging feeder that stops the magpies but no little birds for months now. I miss hearing them in the tree and seeing the flurry of activity. I hope they come back.

No, but there is a lot of natural food at this time of year, seeds, berries etc. We stayed in a woodland lodge last week and put some seeds on the decking rails and were swamped with blue, grey and coal tits, robins amd nuthatches. Just pigeons at home though. But I haven't been putting food out.

A family of bluetits, nuthatch, long tailed tits all ravaging the feeders, nuts and fat balls filled weekly, usual magpies, jays and crows. Robins and tree sparrows.
Woodpecker not been this year but last year was a regular daily visitor

@WildFlowerBees I did the same, caged the ground feeder and put the hanging feeder directly over the caged ground feeder so that more bits that drop down fall inside the caged feeder.

I also caged the water tray I fill every day as pigeons were just sitting in it for ages. I get lots of birds bathing in it as well as drinking from it. The sparrows are the funniest because they all bathe together like a spa day.

Nothing yet but I haven't replenished the feeders yet.

I need to give them a clean first really.

Opposite my house are a couple of large hawthorn trees which are covered in berries as usual this time of year. Normally there are birds fighting to get the berries and the trees will be stripped of them after about 3 weeks. This year - practically nothing eaten. Have seen a couple of pigeons having some but the small birds that normally eat them - no sign. No blackbirds around at all. It's very sad. I hope they return next year.

They never left,I have found they don't like fat balls. They do like my wholemeal seeded bread. I made the mistake of buying a large expensive bag of mixed bird food with a weird thick long grass seed in the mix,it's sprung up all over the patio, which has pebbles,you have to move aside to pull out the grass.

Its often quieter in feeders in autumn as birds can find natural food. They should come back when that dries up.
I serve sunflower seed hearts in squirrel proof spring feeders. No mess. They ignore other food. Usually covered in finches and tit's. Not so much at the moment. They are stripping my hawthorn!

birds have never left...I found that sunflower hearts have been a massive success and over the last couple of days I have had

blue tits
coal tits
Great tits snigger
long tailed tits
green finches
gold finches
robins
dunnocks
wrens
chaffinches

and the usual suspects of starlings, sparrows, blackbirds, jackdaws, crows, and magpies with the odd visit from Song and Mistle thrush and Bullfinch (Mrs)

After they love bombed my feeders a few weeks ago, I haven't had any on the seed feeders or fat balls for two weeks. Usually I get robins, dunnocks, sparrows, blue and great tits, pigeons Eric and Ernie are the two fattest regular visitors but I had up to 10 others during early summer. I miss my robins

Another one whose birds never left. Most have stopped coming en famille now they've kicked all the fledgings out, so there aren't such huge numbers at a time but we're still getting a steady flow through the day.

Ours are fussy about fat balls - some they devour, others they won't touch unless the seed feeders are bare.