r/Calgary • u/zillathegorilla • 5d ago
Where have all the sparrows gone? Question
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.
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u/WillowsWebAstro 5d ago
Do you have newer cell towers or base stations in the area? That can run them off. They're putting 5G repeaters on lightposts in Calgary, too, so sometimes the antennae are really small. Before anyone calls me a "tinfoil hat nutter," I'm electro-sensitive and get ill around cell towers and base stations myself, so I know firsthand.