One of the knock on effects of the exceptionally mild weather has been the absence of birds from the bird feeders. I do get the occasional visits from various tits and robins see each feed station as their own territory, but finches, woodpeckers, nuthatches and the like, see no need to visit as there is such availability of food. The ground is soft so that invertebrates are still accessible to thrushes and the like and there is a great deal of insect life around.
In some ways this is disappointing as it means that the garden is bereft of interesting birdlife but then it can only be good for the overall population levels and so presumably, there will be more birds around to start the breeding season come the spring.
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