At the "right" times of the year, I used to get Meadow Pipits flying by in reasonable numbers during "dawn +" watches down at the salt-marsh. I even used to get them over the house. If you want to improve your house list, I can recommend sitting out the back in a nicely reclined deck-chair and giving it a go. But in recent years, those Mipits simply haven't turned up. And here's another thing ... round here we haven't had a decent " Brambling Year" for ages. And here's yet another thing ... Wiggly Park used to have Green Woodpeckers ... but it hasn't had any for many years. One "thing" for us humans is ... we tend not to notice "things that aren't there". It takes a while for it to sink in. But we all take notice pretty sharpish when something new turns up ... Nuthatches simply weren't available when I moved here ... not for years ... but now, they've moved in gradually and have graduated from being non-existent to being hardly worth a glance. I'm sure you have similar comings and goings wherever you are ... but they may well be different ones to mine. .. something is happening but you don't know what it is !
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