Getting desperate

 Getting desperate now. For almost two weeks now I haven't had a bird in the garden. I took a trip down to Pulborough Brooks this afternoon with no improvement in my luck. On the way I spotted these fallow deer in the woods not knowing that they were going to be the best shot of the day.

At the Brooks there was little to see. I sat for an hour in Westmead hide where hearing a buzzard and spotting a couple of wood pigeons, I watched the rabbits.

After much digging.......

After much digging over the past 12 months I have have finally decided the demise of the small birds where I live is due to air polution. I live in one of the worst places in the U.K. The village is plagued by the amount of traffic passing through and because of the layout it is slow and often stationary filling the air with burnt exhaust gases.

We no longer have house sparrows, very few garden birds, the visiting swifts failed to nest this year. Only the larger birds such as these cormorants, corvids and of course ferral pidgeons dominate the air space. The food in my feeders  is often thrown away without being touched. The local RSPB reserve are suffering too although they don't seem to recognise the situation. The feeders have been removed because it was noticed that some of the finches were sick and there was a fear of it spreading. Now the healthy birds are suffering because of lack of food.