Quote Originally Posted by Woodypie View Post
On Sunday, as part of the National Bird Day survey, I spent an hour counting birds to report back to the RSPB. Admittedly, it was a horrible day but I was struck by how few different species of birds were in my garden - just three. We have lots of feeders and try to encourage wildlife. In total I saw one Robin, one Blackbird and then 17 Magpies sitting on our wall. I wonder if this is a very lucky thing?!
For full disclosure, I also spotted a Tricky Tree which I will be pruning next Sunday. No Stags I'm afraid.
When we moved into this property where most gardens have a number of trees, we'd regularly see greenfinches, blue & great tits, long tailed tits, the Robin (don't often see more than one in a territory unless up to something), blackbirds, thrushes, dunnocks, wrens, jays, wood pigeons and from time to time other visitors. Like you it's now just about the Robin, wren, one or two blackbirds and the wood pigeons. Sometimes can hear the blue tits. Very sad.

There are plentiful squirrels but there always have been.