What happened to all the Birds?
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A totally none-fishing film this time, with Graeme going through a huge collection of all the different birds he has seen and tried to get on film through his kitchen window or just in the back garden. Even Colin the huge Kite is featured along with some others that Graeme wants confirmed with you people getting the correct I.D. on them...It’s a relaxing film, all done with voiceover, but in the last year there has been a big decline in the numbers of birds he has seen in his garden. Sit back and have a quiet watch, maybe some of you can identify every species of our feathered friends as they appear on screen. Let us know in the comments what some of them are...and also how long of them live for?
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Hi Graeme, fantastic film. I've been birding( not twitching) for over 50 years, my Dad was a very keen angler & sometimes accompanying him got a bit tedious as a kid, so he got me some binoculars & a bird book & I was , pardon the pun hooked. The decline is alarming & personally heartbreaking.When I migrated from the Midlands to Surrey in the early 90s I worked at Heathrow Airport on various building projects. The bus station would be full of sparrows & starlings. Now, it's feral pigeons only. My belief, and its shared by others is that the decline has been caused by the change from the old diesel to the new clean diesel & it's additives, (which has also caused an increase in respiratory disease such as asthma in us humans) Causing a imbalance in the reproductive systems of birds. Also, sparrows would commonly nest in the eves of buildings,now,with the upvc facias that are now widespread they are unable to nest, the same goes with summer migrants such as housemartins & swallows. With finches, there is a fungal disease that causes the upper mandible to perish & it stops them from feeding. Dirty feeders are mainly to blame for this. So on to Blackbirds, & thrushes, they are in decline from two of the worst mammals on earth. Cats & grey squirrels. Cats are a menace to any bird, also small rodents, voles, wood mice etc. Grey Squirrels , will take eggs from the nests of birds & also carry a viral infection known as squirrels pox, this is also a danger to us humans as if we come into contact with there faeces or urine it can cause viral meningitis. Thrushes are snail predators, so the over use of the now thankfully banned slug repellents they were ingesting caused the birds to also be poisoned. Smaller birds like tits are declining due to insect numbers falling alarmingly. Especially butterflies whose caterpillars are a main source of protein for their young & also is a factor in their colouring. Also people having gardens & driveways hard paved or gardens that are so pristine that nature doesn't stand a chance of survival. All this & the massive habitat losses are killing of the last of the only surviving descendants of dinosaurs. These are very sad times for Bird life globally & as usual, humans are to blame. Thank you for always producing quality & informative films.
I have seen many small frontage gardens on older properties that have been ripped up and paved over to make parking spaces. I guess that must be a huge source of habitat loss for birds as no flowers,no insect,no birds. I had not thought of it affecting birds that way but you could be right. It all adds up when you realise probably hundreds of thousands of front gardens have been paved over for parking. Thanks for the comment.
Such a well thought out reply Smiffy... thank you - I too find the decline of songbirds in particular, heartbreaking. Great that Graeme has raised the issue. love the films Graeme .. Spring is coming, my daughter and I will be out fishing soon!
@@TAFishing Plus the fashion for fake plastic grass.
#1 reason for declining birds is loss of habitat #2 is free ranging house cats localized drop in numbers can be diseases but that usually resolves itself.
there are 2 species of sparrow the tree sparrow and the house sparrow the one you showed was a dunnock , not related but commonly known as the hedge sparrow, good filming
I know it would not be fair to lay the blame for the reduction of bird number down to any one factor, but we must never underestimate the number of birds killed by Cats , i know its " never my little fluffy " but im afraid to say it is ! Anyone can buy a cat but i don't think its so easy to buy a gold finch !
Very enjoyable to watch, something different but equally interesting and enjoyable. Many thanks for sharing Sir :)
the general licence has been introduced !! stopping the control of magpies & other corvids unless you have a reason, predation on song birds etc is not a reason apparently
Dove was a collared dove, they were unknown in the UK until the 1950s when they arrived on the east coast and soon spread right across the country in relatively few years
Enjoyed the birds it comes with fishing and nature keep them coming Graham good stuff.
Yet another fantastic video, I really look forward to them thank you and keep them coming Graham
I won't get many views with an in-depth bird I.D. film,but I took the trouble to compile the clips over some period of time so thought I may as well use them....Its something I have wanted to do for some time.
There are many factors to the reduction in bird numbers Graeme. I remember a certain overhead (phone) cable, above the top of a cornfield in West Sussex during the late 70's- early 80's, where the summer arrivals of Turtle doves used to call and sit. Their numbers diminished until they were all gone, whereas the Collared dove numbers increased. Same as the house sparrow & starling flocks in my garden. Another noteworthy fact you must have noticed is that 95% of the insects you saw in the early 80's have now vanished as well. That was a Fieldfare Graeme. Those and the Redwings are winter visitors.
Great film G.
Looks like scaly leg on the chaffinches. Shame but common. Hardly any insects on the windscreen (pesticide) shows a big part of the answer to the decrease in the populations of our birds and illness such as bird flu.
Magpies squirrels and rats are prolific lately due to decrease in budgets all of which eat eggs and baby birds.
Fieldfares and redwings are filling up on the beetles which are easy to catch in your beautifully mown lawn before heading South for the winter.
Mr Buzzard is eating worms sad but true.
Thanks again bud have a great new year and tight lines!
loved it graeme. your lust for life and what it can offer is a tonic. love watching my bird feeder out of the window when it's too rough to fish!!
Bird Flu has taken its toll I suspect as well. I’m in the west of Scotland and there is a very noticeable increase in Nuthatch numbers, also seeing a lot more Jays. Great stuff btw.
Live in Liverpool and I keep pigeons and a bird shed keeping canary’s the sparrow hawks r a pain in the arse mate in a city am based and there nothing in years
Hope one of the goodies gives you some answers. The names are only given to them by humans so may as well just enjoy them😅
that bird withe thing on its leg is a chaffinch..
I know in the States , here in
Montana, we have seen a drop . One thing I think here a few years ago that caused a hug loss was the large and lengthy wild fires we had and neighboring states had . When they tried to migrate to the west and south, they couldn't take the smoke, heat , and tried to go around it through the desert country, which had little food . We lost a good 150 barn swallows , and we count on them to keep the mosquitoes thined down . But Robin's, cedar wax wings , black birds , etc, are low or not here . 😮 our migratory birds that stop by are thining down or don't show up at all . No problem with doves , starlings , there are way to many of them .
That's interesting,thanks for the comment.
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Also ..... I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's mate, I'm only plucking pheasants cos the pheasant plucker's late !
Occasionally see Hen Harriers hereabouts. They seem to disappear for a few years, and just when you think they've gone for good, they'll pop up again. No shortage of cormorants, a nesting pair watched over one of my favourite swims last year. Plenty of Lapwings, too, but the main inhabitants are corvids: Jays, Jackdaws, Magpies, Rooks and Crows. Last year I got a photo of a Jackdaw hitching a ride on a sheep's back. Can't say I've noticed a drop off in numbers, but will keep my eyes open.
The kestrel hunts by hovering, the bird that zips through woodland taking small birds etc is a sparrow hawk or goshawk , kestrels can see in almost ultraviolet, when hovering they’re looking for voles , the vile leaves little drops of urine every few feet , the kestrel can see the urine drops and tracks the voles by it
The fields around our rural allotment site were full of nesting Skylarks.
Then the farmer cut the grass to feed his indoor cows, then cut them again and again.
No more Skylarks.
I have big fields outside my property, used to be skylarks but as more people arrived and started running their dogs off leads then no more skylarks...Has to be human habitation moving in I reckon. Field is only cut once a year ,as per in the film.
It's cheap and easy to grow your own sunflowers, harvest and dry the heads and store for winter.
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Vinegar in hot water in a bucket is good for washing off bird feeders. Use a sink or scrubbing brush for speedy cleaning. The starlings at Aberystwyth pier, murmering, make a fascinating sight.
It was a thrush. They like beech hedges.
The bird you said was a hedge sparrow, is a Dunnock. They like ground feeding.
The bird at 53.57 was a Mistle Thrush. You are more or less right about the others except the ones you were questioning being Bullfinches were actually Chaffinches-the males have a pink breast the females are brown/grey in colour
that buzzard was takeing worms and beatles.
Hi Graeme,
The Yellow Wagtiail you refer to is in fact a Grey Wagtail although it does have yellow on it. The Yellow Wagtial has a lot more yellow on it. They love water, especially running water. Compare the two and you will definitely see the difference. I hope you have found some of my comments useful.
Barry
Thanks, I will see if I can spot the difference with the Yellow Wagtail.
Look at the data domestic cats mill millions every year fact
both herbicide and increase in temperature + pollution means way fewer insects. i guess more extreme weather also means small birds like robins don’t fair as well
They’re listening not looking
Red kites were down to about six birds in sw Wales in the 1930s, they recovered slowly in Wales with no introductions but birds from Spain and Sweden were introduced to the Chilterns in the 1980s and later in Northamptonshire, Yorkshire and Scotland where the habitat was much better than in Wales and there are now several thousand pairs.
This year, in Spain, they tracked a bird bought to wakes 29 years ago. I thought that was brilliant!
Seems most birds that eat mostly insects and snails are disapering, pestasides?
To many stray cats.
Aside from cats. Predation by humans on many of the migratory song birds has caused a significant impact.
Even in places like Cyprus protected song birds are netted illegally and eaten.
The sparrow-like bird at 55:30 is a Dunnock!
Thanks for the I.D. that's why I ask in the film so I can learn...
Last year I was walking my dog in the local park when I came across this big green parrot 🦜
I couldn’t believe my eyes!
I said to the dog “what the bloody hell is that doing here!” He looked equally as confused. It was an incredible sight.
The funniest thing was that it was standing with a bunch of crows 🐦⬛ and then they all just took off and flew away together.
What ???...The dog ????
@@TAFishing 😂
Thanks for the great video. Well put together in my opinion. I understand that a lot of farmers are now being paid to divert some of their land to growing food for wild birds, perhaps that is having an impact on garden feeding.
Some nice footage there. I lived most of my life in SE London then recently moved to rural Kent Surry borders. Back in the day, in the 70's I can remember hundreds of Stalin's on my Mum's lawn and Hedgehogs in the garden at dusk. I have not seen one of those for ages. Seems to me the insects have greatly decided and spiders. We have a lot of Blackbirds here but I font dee finches or times or Wrens at all. Plenty of Geese, Raptors and those of the crow family. There are some small birds living by yhr River Eden I can't identify but generally I think there is a distinct lack of lots of the wildlife that used to be around.
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Brilliant video Graham, I've noticed over the years there are less birds. I haven't seen a starling for ages! When I'm fishing I do see a lot of Robins, wrens, and chaffinch. I love spring and summer to hear the birds singing!! ❤️❤️
A dunnock is a hedge sparrow just a different name for it
@@garynewsham9117 I know!!!! 🤔
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I live in pembrokeshire feed sunflower seed and i have a black cap feeding male and female in all the 30 years iv live its my first time seing one so id say birds are on the up its the magpies and grey squirrels that will make the numbers drop dramaticly
They aren’t buzzards, which tend not to have feathers on their heads. It serves to keep them safe as they clean up the dead. They do look like a type of hawk or falcon. Interesting video. We’ve also noticed a decline in birds here in Florida. Mostly I think it’s from domesticated cats people let outside.
They are common buzzards. The things you call buzzards in america are turkey vultures
Buzzard in the US and buzzard over here are different birds - I found this out recently. Over here the buzzard (Buteo spp.) are hawks, while I believe you guys call certain vultures buzzards? Correct me if I'm wrong
Hi Graeme, is it sacrilege to blame the family moggie for some of the decline in the number of birds. I often see neighbours cats hunting birds on & around my bird table and feeders. Please don’t attack me or send bombs to me, it’s just my observations. PS they also crap in my flower beds.
And cover it up in little mounds for the poor gardener to "discover" when they do some weeding..Apparently they never dump in their own gardens .
@@TAFishing So I’ve heard. I have so much in my garden that they can’t go anywhere else.
i have not seen the vid yet but i will tell you where all the birds have gone ,ie song birds and ground nesting birds ,cats kill 55million a year , grey squirrels eat thousands of the eggs and young , magpies and crows eat millions of the eggs of nesting birds a year , gulls eat millions of young birds a year ,and then we have the biggest killer of all the song birds ,THE BIRDS OF PREY , and one thing to remember NONE OF THESES KILLERS HAVE A PREDATOR THAT FEEDS ON THEM -so their numbers are rising tenfold every year ,, also pesticides are a big killer of the song birds food, and nets strung across big valleys in other countries take millions of migrating birds for human consumption , in other words the SONG BIRDS DONT STAND A CHANCE TO GROW IN NUMBERS ANY MORE ,it wont be long before meat will be the only thing worth putting on a bird table to feed all of these predators
Hi Graham you ok pal, it has got to do some thing to do with chemicals??? All the best from GRIMSBY
Excellent video Graham. The leg problem in those finches is called "papillomatosis" and is a skin disease.
You’re right nuthatch feeds down a tree whereas a treecreeper feeds up a tree
The Hedge Sparrows here in Norfolk is known as the "Dunnock"
I am 57yrs old and I have seen a massive change in bird population in my lifetime 😔 common birds like house sparrows and starlings that were everywhere when I was in my teens are now protected species .
When I was in my teens a local farmer gave me cartridges and asked me to shoot the sparrows that were feeding on his wheat, there was clouds of them. Every chimney pot and tv aerial had a starling sat on it .
I haven’t seen a Green finch for over 5yrs 😔 a very common bird once ,🤔 Goldfinch and Chaffinch appear to be doing well but I am only guessing as there’s a lot local to me on the game covers.
Definitely something going on 😔🤔
I wouldn’t trust the government to tell us anything
I mean look at what politicians and big business has done for are rivers and seas 🤨💵💰
water companies manly in the hands of Americans 🙄
made 86 billion after tax from 2007 to2016 apparently .
Top brass at the E A, should be sacked for incompetence 🤨the government agency who monitor water pollution 🙈🙉🙊
who tell you that rivers have never been so clean 🙄 yet ignore Industrial Scale pollution that takes place on a daily basis 😡. Sack them
DIt is manly because. People want a pristine garden lawn & ornamental plants. Witch doesn't help the wildlife . We leave 2 acres of the property wild , so we have alot more wildlife. Cos if you take away their habitats & feeding area's, what is the point. In you helping anything live 🌎 .Do you make your own bird food balls 🤔. We tryd it 2 years ago, got all taken by Raccoons. 18 golf ball sizes, gone in 1 night, drove the dogs made. So much wildlife here in B.C 🇨🇦, can't have rose bushes in your yard. As the deer will eat them all
Hi Graham, I too have noticed the decline in bird life (and fish!) locally. I remember my father taking me on fishing trips, always very local to your area in the 70's.
My job was always to clean the car windscreen and remove all the dead insects which had to be done weekly in the summer.
Now, I rarely clean my windscreen.
Probably many reasons but could be changing farming practices leading to less insect life.....?
I also feed the birds, and we get a lot of bluetits, greenfinches, blackbirds and, of course, wood pigeons. There seems to be a decline in species diversity, so I rarely see anything more than the birds I've mentioned. I clean our bird feeders with a DEFRA approved product these days, as I'm worried about salmonella and other nasties!
Bird at 55m was a Dunnock or Hedge Accentor. Common name Hedge Sparrow but misleading as it is not a sparrow at all.
Excellent production Graeme, we only seem to get pigeons these days, and occasionally a few sparrows.
I always enjoy and look forward to all your videos. So thank you for doing them. I also love the long music at the end of your videos. It sounds so good! Who is playing those country guitars? I would love to hear the whole song of that group! Please let me know what the song artist name is. Thank you so much for your great videos. ATB Rob
In some European countries they think its great sport to shoot songbirds. They will shoot anything that can fly!!
As an HGV driver, I am sad to say I kill at least 2 birds a week, just driving.
So with all the trucks, cars ect there must be hundreds, if not thousands, killed a day by transport alone.
Come to my garden in the highlands of Scotland, I can't keep up with the little buggers have to put food out every 2 days into 4 feeders
Small grey bird is a dunnock sometimes called a hedge sparrow
Most birds migrate to warmer places,or nest in old abandoned buildings,or parking garages looking to stay warm.
Great video ,you have a great variety of song birds around you ,unfortunately modern farming practices don't help them much ,seems to be more corvids around than ever before
I have to agree with you Graham, here close to Taunton in Somerset we have noticed a real decline in numbers of garden birds just this last year, for about 3 months before Xmas we saw barely 2 a day on our bird table that usually gets numerous birds of all varieties all day long, the only ones left in that period was a few blackbirds and one robin who passed through every morning, only since the frosts of this last month have we seen small very small numbers of tits etc returning. On the point of the birds constantly turning their head sideways it is, I’m fairly certain, an observational trait as you surmise they have to be constantly aware of their whole surroundings to avoid predators both airborne and ground attack predators ie: hawks and cats
Hi Graeme
I live in North York's and until a month ago I couldn't put enough feed out on our bird station and we had loads of different species but now I hardly see any and all the feed goes rotten , it's v strange .
The bird you thought a hedge sparrow (we used to call them that) is nowadays called a Dunnock
Hi again if you look at (22:20) you can see a shadow of a bigger bird flying over, possible predictor so I think he is looking up so he doesn’t end up as dinner.
The one you thought was a yellow wag tail is a grey wag tail .👍👍
Thanks for the I.D. I never even knew there was a Grey wagtail.
Great video Graham enjoyed watching it as i feed birds in garden down in Kent, looks lke you have redwings and fieldfares, towards the end the sparrow bird is a dunnock i get these plus alot of the other birds you get no kites or buzzards tho, all interesting to watch .
Great video Graeme ! You got must of the birds right so well done mate !!! 👍❤️
I'd say it's the -15c temperatures we're getting in some places although your hotel and breakfast helps it won't help those temperatures but luckily they can fly to France without a passport
The magpies love pinching the food for the hedgehog.I have to say that being rural, you have some good bird variety , i live in a city we dont get the variety you get .
maybe the reason for reduction in small birdlife is predation of eggs and young by grey squirrel !
I love goldfinches ,only ever seen one in my area and it qaa dead unfortunately.
I feed my robins live or dried meal worms, so imagine they love maggots too .
Are you feeding organic or homegrown food or gmo commercial birdseed?
That bird in among the sheep is a rapture bird of some type, hawk, kite, etc. buzzards usually have a bare head, not sure if you have turkey vultures there!
have a great day
I’m no expert but the buzzards feed on worms quite a lot as well as other insects and carrion. You also had a nice selection of fieldfares and redwings. Definitely a reduction in birds here too, on the Isle of Wight.
Some really good footage , have you ever seen how fry react when a bird say flies over a canal , how they scatter.
I've not seen a bullfinch for years, used to be very common in norfok.
Don’t suppose you fancy a trip down to Brighton?
Really enjoyed watching this something different why not
I pretty sure it a Dunnock which is often called the hedge sparrow
Thanks for that,I was just asking if someone knew what that one was..I haven't seen one since so I don't know if they are maybe regional,or common as muck and I have just not seen one before.
Cats, cats happened to birds. Simple.
Look like a juvenile greenfinch to Me anyway
They keep getting eaten by colin the buzzard lol
Bird with damaged foot is Male chaffinch
Bird with the leg growth is a female chaffinch.
I think they are all turkey's! Great vid!
it's all for the birds.... where have they gone?
have a great day
Lovely video Graeme, I think the bird that looks like a Sparrow @56:00 is a Dunnock.
Yea I agree I'd say a Dunnock
Also known as a hedge sparrow
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@21:19 I believe is a female chaffinch
Do all woodpeckers have red heads?
Windmills and chemicals in the air
20.42 female chaffinch
Bird at 58m is a Grey Wagtail
That blue jay feather is used in an Invicta
One of the Sea Trout patterns if I recall.
More of a general sedge imitation for browns although it does also take sea trout as part of a team of three wets
I've noticed a massive decrease with small birds in my area (Surrey Hills) since a massive increase of Magpies, rooks, crows and squirrels all of which are decimating the eggs and chick's of the smaller birds.
Certainly a contributory factor , the Magpie population seems epidemic proportions and soon adapt and move into human habitations where the food source might be.
15.06 is a chaffinch
Another cause of warty growths is the Fringilla papillomavirus which affects Chaffinches and Bramblings. These growths may vary in size from small nodules to larger warts that engulf the whole leg. The warts develop slowly over a long period and affected individuals may otherwise appear quite healthy. Some individuals may become lame or lose affected digits.
The loss of Green Finches has been blamed on Bird Tables spreading disease. The bird that was common where I live and seems to have disappeared are Rooks. We see Ravens that have returned and all raptors are doing well. Many pheasant shoots have stopped since Bird Flue I live 40 miles north of Graham.
I wanted to know how long songbirds etc live for ?? but nobody seems to have picked up on that yet. I know Seagulls have been recorded at well over 25 years if I recall.
Redwing is the bird
Hello Graham, the dove is a collar dove, the small brown bird with the grey head is a dunnock
hope this helps.
Thanks for the comment.