Just to add to Ad's ornithology, I have finally succeeding in attracting birds to our garden. It's tough in a new build: the garden is immature and birds tend to stay away.
I've spent a lot of time and money on bird-friendly plants, most of which still need to grow a lot before they are truly bird friendly.
We have had a few wood pigeons, magpies and starlings over the winter, but now the smaller birds are coming, too: over the past few weeks we've had a regular wren visiting, a pair of blackbirds and the other day we had a pair of goldfinches, too
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