sparrows

The Joy of Busking by marty_pinker Arsenal follow Spurs in banning the vuvuzela from their ground. Spoilsports, or does the noise spoil sports? Hackney musician voted best new busker Engineering works on the Tube will be halted during the Olympic games A serious decline in …

A meadow full of stunning wildflowers in the middle of an undulating park.

Two pigeons, pecking around a copy of The Evening Standard outside Bethnal Green station Gordon: Sparrows. Loads of them. Taking all our bird feed. This is our borough. This is our place. Bloody cheek. Brenda: Says here their number has dropped 70 per cent since …

If you’ve just remembered you’ve got a garden but need a little bit of a welly boot to revisit it, the RSPB are offering you just the ticket this weekend. It’s the Big Garden Birdwatch, wherein nature loving Londoners do a kind of stock check …

Oh hapless birdie and Oh deed of bane! One of London’s favourite icons is in trouble. The nice birdmen at the RSPB inform us that the house sparrow, Cockney or otherwise, is in decline for lack of appropriate food. Chicks like the cheeky chappy to …

In 2002, the BBC pronounced the Cockney Sparrow dead. A year later, they were asking where it was. Sparrow news went cold for a bit, then bounced back in 2006 with the London House Sparrow Project and efforts to find out why the London sparrow …

While pigeons are getting a bit of stick today, heartwarming news of sparrows getting new homes at London Zoo courtesy of prisoners in Spring Hill prison balances the scale somewhat. After a long absence, sparrows have come back to London and are being housed in …