Don't worry Bill...the sparrows are alive and squawking here in South Wales! There are loads of them living in the bushes in the lane at the back of our house. It's really comical....as you approach, the noise of the squawking and squabbling is deafening , and then as you get near it stops abruptly and it's deathly quiet. Once you've passed by it starts up again as loud as ever!
We get loads of birds in our garden...Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Siskins, Chaffinches, Blackbirds, Wrens.....but a new visitor this Spring is a Pied Wagtail who comes every day noŵ for the mealworms.....haven't seen him before now. It's a good job my cat is a lazy madam who is out at night ratting, and then in bed all day!
One bird we don't hear nowadays is the Cuckoo. When I was a little girl we could hear him up in the woods every Spring, and his call would echo down over the valley, but I haven't heard him for years. But that could be 'cause I'm getting a bit deaf?😀