My husband and i try to encourage wildlife into our garden, plenty of shrubs, the kind of flowers that bees and butterflies enjoy and shaded areas with trees for nesting birds. We still only get regular visits from pigeons, two pairs of collared doves, luckily a male and female blackbird and some sparrows. Occasionally we get a pair of magpies as well. We have two nesting boxes for blue tits, they flit in and then out as if to say 'not for us' we have two bug hotels as well plus two feeding stations. I can remember when blue tits, golden finches, robins and occasionally a beautiful thrush would visit but they are all gone now for some reason. It is so sad as like many on this site i can remember seeing bull finches, yellow hammers, wrens, cuckoos, wood peckers as a younger person as a matter of course and not paying any real attention to them as they were just there, now i notice their absence. Does anyone remember having the milk bottles tops pecked by blue tits if you didn't bring the milk in early enough after delivery???