DeepAir- Registered: 3 Oct 2018
- Posts: 32
#1
Hello dovorians. Have anyone else noticed that there are more birds in Dover now than a year ago? Or am I the only me who has this strong impression?
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#2
Yes I have seen more birds in my garden.Does not help with neighbours feeding them all the time .
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#3
Do you mean more by numbers or more (i.e. different) species?
There are certainly fewer turnstones (they were always on the PoW pier), fewer lesser black-backed gulls, fewer terns (again possibly due to harbour 'developments'), fewer greenfinches (I've not seen one locally for years), fewer yellowhammers, skylarks and starlings. On the cliffs there are some ravens, peregrines and kestrels, the odd buzzard, and flocks of linnets, pipits, goldfinches and long-tailed tits, but no more than usual, some fulmar, but no nesting kittiwakes since the cliff fall, though I did spot a few visiting fieldfare the other day. Plenty wrens, blackbirds and robins about, dunnocks too, but I've not heard a song thrush in ages. Egrets, grey wagtails, pied wagtails, a rare kingfisher and the odd heron up the Barton path, but more mallards and moorhens.
So, for me, no more, and quite a lot fewer.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
Seems to be about the same here in the town, but maybe the birds are visiting my bird table at the front of the house a little earlier than usual. Sparrow, blue tit, great tit, robin, dunnock and magpie being the main ones, we even saw the heron perched on the roof opposite I expect on his way to his patch on the river by Morrisons.
Thank goodness the gulls seems to have disappeared at the moment so I only see them up in the sky, I only hope it stays that way.
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DeepAir- Registered: 3 Oct 2018
- Posts: 32
#5
Dear all, thank you for checking into this thread. I meant exactly by numbers and I meant more garden birds. There was one wet day couple of weeks ago when my garden was simply full of birds, it was very unusual... especially many many greenfinches.
I am going to greater London frequently and there are seems to be much less birds than before... I am thinking it might be due to growing electromagnetic pollution in and around London.
Thank you very much Weird Granny for your post I Googled and wrote down all the bird names I didn't know. It is a very helpful information :)
Seems like only one person noticed there are more birds in Dover now...
