Really poor RSPB garden birdwatch

On Sunday 31st January, the garden was virtually birdless all day, but we did manage a Wood Pigeon which is usually hanging around usually on the back kgence or the garden pagoda and a foraging Blue Tit prospecting our nest boxes (offering hope for a nesting pair in the spring). Despite the plethora of food put out sunflower seeds, sunflower hearts, fatballs, dried mealworms, peanuts and alder seeds the bird were probably put off by all the buidling work which with 3 great big houses being worked Monday- Friday just over the fence. No sign of the Robin, or Blackbirds or Dunnock which was very disappointing. A far cry from a year or two ago when we would get Bullfinches plus Greenfinches, Goldfinches & Chaffinches. Several Black- headed Gulls seen flying over the garden though.