{"id":137952,"date":"2023-06-26T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-five-fledgling-robins-disappear-into-the-wild-kate-bradbury\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:49:01","slug":"country-diary-five-fledgling-robins-disappear-into-the-wild-kate-bradbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-five-fledgling-robins-disappear-into-the-wild-kate-bradbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: Five fledgling robins disappear into the wild | Kate Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHove, East Sussex: Life is tough here for garden birds, even making it to the outside world is no mean featThere are few songbirds in my neighbourhood, thanks to a deadly cocktail of plastic and paving, climate change and high numbers of predators. There\u2019s little natural food, but adaptable species make do \u2013 crows moisten bread and meat in my bird bath, squirrels are given peanuts. These species don\u2019t just outcompete the smaller birds, they eat them too, taking chicks direct from the nest.It\u2019s nature, of course, but the adaptability of the predators gives them an unfair advantage. Then there are the cats \u2013 it was cats that got the goldfinch chicks, just like the magpies got the robins and the squirrels raided the blackbird nest for three consecutive years. (Nature Girl, here, gets all the gruesome stories.) I feel the losses. Goldfinch numbers have halved since I moved in, the blackbird that sang from my roof is gone. I rarely see robins. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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