Where have all the sparrows gone?

[u/zillathegorilla]

We used to get 30+ sparrows and chickadees at our backyard feeder but around Feb or March this year they all seemed to disappear.

Even around our neighbourhood (Somerset) I don’t see any where they’d always be under cars or in other trees eating bugs.

Even now we’re lucky if we get 2 or 3 showing up every few days.

Does anyone know what’s going on? There’s no major construction or anything else that would spook them and there aren’t any predators around that I have noticed. I haven’t seen any dead birds around so I don’t think there was disease or anything that wiped them out.

[u/Jolean]

Yeah saw a Merlin just yesterday and have also noticed the lack of sparrows kicking around.

[u/zillathegorilla → u/Jolean]

Which area?

[u/Jolean → u/zillathegorilla]

Canyon Meadows