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Thrushes eat snails and slugs too. We have great tits, blue tits, magpies, wood pigeons, collared doves, rooks, goldfinches, parakeets, sparrows, robins, starlings, the occasional jay and woodpecker. But I've never seen a thrush or blackbird in the garden.
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Yeah I agree, its hard to encourage birdlife when the garden is pretty small. Also hard to get hedgehogs, badgers, etc in fenced off gardens (Fenced well to protect from neighbour's pets)
I think i should plant more slug resistant stuff probably.
hoefla
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@Fox
We have a female blackbird who occasionally visits and eats our slugs (interesting/gruesome to watch as they 'wipe' them from side to side on the ground to remove the slime then chop them into pieces with their beak) but I've never seen any other birds eating them.
So I suspect this London garden problem is caused by lack of bird life, which definitely isn't a problem in our friend's part of Oxfordshire. Badgers will take slugs too but again there aren't so many in Clapton.