THE SPARROWS HAVE GONE
A month ago, I blogged about the start of spring - see https://bowandarrowman. blogspot.com/2024/03/spring- has-sprung-here.html . One thing I noticed were two sparrows flitting in and out of a privet hedge in my front garden. I assumed they were building a nest. I enjoyed watching their movements through my kitchen window. However, over the last two weeks, I've not seen the sparrows. They seemed to have gone. I now know why the sparrows have gone. About four days ago I saw a cat disappear into the privet hedge where the sparrows hung out. I immediately went outside to make a lot of noise to shoo the cat away. And then two days ago, I saw a magpie disappear into the privet hedge. My guess is that cats and magpies have eaten the sparrows' eggs or, if hatched, the fledgling sparrows and that the mummy and daddy sparrow have flown away to find a safer place. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, a charity based in Britain, estimated that domesticated cats kill up to four...