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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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No thrushes here either. Rest sound similar to yours but I've not seen or heard a woodpecker. Had a house martin singing in the tree behind us though recently which was amazing.
I think we literally have one pair of blackbirds so they aren't constant visitors, more occasional, but I love their song so don't mind them stealing my blueberries too much.
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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.