Where have all the birds gone?

For a while now the ony birds I have seen in my garden are sparrows fighting over the fat balls and woodpigeons fighting over the chicken corn.  There are no sign of the blackbirds or the baby robins, or the hords of starlings that fought over my home made lard mixture in June and July.  I alwaus think the worst, that the cats in the area have got them.  I really hope not. 

As there was no cheap hedgehog food left in B & Q, I had to buy some expensive stuff (£7 for 2.5kg!!) but will look on the internet.  I only saw one hedgehog at a time, and then a horrible tabby cat eating it.  It got a cosmetics bottle thrown out the window at it.  Thats the same cat that keeps going in my polytunnel.  There was a white one this morning as well that the neighbour feeds.  I scared it up he garden but it still managed to pee on a cardboard box in front of me as if to say ‘its my terratory’ before it trotted off.  How can I get rid of the horrible things!

 I am however, very glad to see so many sparrows, a slow worm in my compost bin and a frog in a plant pot.  I told them both to run away from the chickens.

At lunch, whilst on a ‘business’ call I also rescued a huge bumble bee that looked a bit disorientated in the road.  It flew off into the hedge so I hope it is ok.