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According to a documentary I watched, since the 50's when Consolidated Dairies Ltd took control of the market, it's been downhill ever since.
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Blame the sparrows... if they hadn't kept dipping their beaks into the silver tops on the doorstep to get the cream this would never have happened.
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sparrows have declined since people switched from the milkman to the supermarket
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Blue tits !
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curious-cat 25 Nov 15 22:23
sparrows have declined since people switched from the milkman to the supermarket Just as I thought... AP, and his milk bottle shaking ilk, have a lot to answer for. ![]() |
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... and the lack of milky t1ts as well... nature has a fine balance.
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Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008.
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Got hundreds of the feckers in my garden, (well I do put seed out for them every day
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CC.. I've no idea if they're house/hedge sparrows, maybe even dunnocks.. lots of different patterns on them.
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House sparrows are not able to get into newly built houses.....thus the decline.
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where are these newly built houses ?
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recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008.
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As it happens, three Sparrows live in a quite new house, next but one to my son's place!
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