My garden has become modeled on the Groundhogs song, Garden, where the singers garden returns to the days before agricultural land. Where a hundred birds nest in the trees.

Google earth shows a line of neatly tended gardens in a row of nice houses and there in the middle is this little patch of seeming neglect. That is where I live. 

But it isn't neglected, far from it, in fact it has more attention paid to it than most gardens. 

Presently it is home to a substantial flock of Reed Buntings, not normally a garden bird, but I get dozens of them. 

I get Stock Doves, in addition to Wood Pigeons and Collared doves

Stock Doves are easily overlooked, but they are a really nice bird to have in the garden. There are many other birds at this time of year, and it has become such an important source of food that I try not to go out there during the day so that I don't cause any disturbance.

All the food is of course put there by me, so it is relatively artificial.

Despite the trays of food and the feeders full of seed I almost never get House  Sparrows.