Do the sparrows go on holiday?

fairfraise

We had an absolute tragedy a few weeks ago. Wondering why one box had gone quiet so DH went up ladder to look inside and found three little dried up corpses. I think it must have been the intense heat as perhaps the box was in wrong spot or perhaps a cat had got parents. It made us feel quite sad.

It's quite disturbing when you find nature at it's most raw isnt it?

We had an absolute tragedy a few weeks ago. Wondering why one box had gone quiet so DH went up ladder to look inside and found three little dried up corpses. I think it must have been the intense heat as perhaps the box was in wrong spot or perhaps a cat had got parents. It made us feel quite sad.

It`s Possible they have cleared the nests out.
We have loads of different birds in our garden,i think it`s because we live at the side of a canal.

Were there any dead fledglings in the rubbish they cleared out?

That is usually the reason for them deserting nests.

I never remember any birds except rooks holding a very obvious house-cleaning, but I have know tits desert a nest after a fledgling died there.

Perhaps a bird-watcher can suggest a reason. To me it sounds as if there either is some illness sweeping the sparrow community or some other danger. You haven't seen a hawk, have you?

Could there be some more venturesome cats with good road drill or a stoat in the neighbourhood?

I haven’t seen a sparrow in years here. I think the big birds must have eaten them all though we do get the tiny little honeyeaters in flocks. Never see thrushes ,either ,though we get the odd blackbird. Different types of birds these days. More parrots, kookaburras, currawongs and ravens but the magpies seem to be going and haven’t seen owls for a long while.

Don't worry, they're all sitting on the phone lines outside my house.

They look like a musical stave

We're wondering about this too. Earlier in the year there were hordes of them outside, but numbers seem to have dropped off lately.
We put up a few bird boxes last year and it was a joy to see them flitting and fluttering in and out and fussing over their babies.