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Beloved garden bird sightings fall as gulls and pigeons thrive Gulls and feral pigeons can survive by scavenging from humans while other birds suffer from the loss of wild spaces 25 January 2021 • 6:00am Blue tit sightings dropped to 75 per cent in 20202 from 80 per cent in 2018 Credit: DAMIEN MEYER /AFP Opening their back curtains in the morning the typical British birdwatcher might expect to see a garden full of sparrows, blue tits and blackbirds. But keen amateur ornithologists are increasingly spotting a different type of garden bird - pigeons and gulls. A poll by Gardeners World magazine found that sightings of some of Britain s best-loved garden birds had dropped over the past two years, while readers were increasingly spotting the scavenging birds. ....