Garden birdlife - or lack of it.

I don't know where you live Ray but, like Alan, I have in excess of 20 Goldfinches in my Market Rasen garden daily.  I ringed my 200th in the garden for the year last week.

You can have some of our Goldfinch, we get up to 30 at a time on the feeders, it is costing us a fortune !!

I don't  know whether to blame avian flu or the two cats that moved in next door a couple of years ago. Either way, we are getting no birds in our garden of late. Apart from the odd pigeon and an occasional blackbird or robin there is nothing.

Not so long ago we had a nice little flock of sparrows and the usual array of finches and tits on the seed feeders. Numbers of goldfinches have been declining for a while. It's a good few years since we saw flocks of as many as 25 goldfinches at a time.

We live in sad and depressing times - greenwashing at COP27 and ever-deteriorating countryside what with non-stop development and factory farming.

If anyone has any good news I'd be glad to hear it!

Ray Hume, psychologically-disturbed bird-lover.