where are the garden birds

I don't know the answer to this but maybe it's to do with the fact that most have finished feeding their young now and there is a plentiful supply of worms, berries etc due to the wet summer. You would expect them to keep coming to their usual places though. I think they do tend to 'disappear' a bit this time of year, although where do they go?

Morning. I was wondering about the same thing last week when I read in a gardening mag that it was due to the adult birds moulting, and keeping a low profile until their feathers have grown again. This can take a few weeks.

B & I noticed a few weeks ago that suddenly we were seeing hardly any birds on the feeders - yesterday they reappeared in force and we doing their usual queuing to get on the feeders. We assumed it was because there was so much wild food they did not need the nuts and seeds.

I noticed a fall off, particularly in the bluetits, about a fortnight ago - I realised the nut feeder was virtually empty, and refilled, but I've still only seen one or two tits, though the woodpecker is still visiting. I wondered why, was panicking a bit in case the nut feeder had some kind of infection in it...

I had exactly the same thing happen - and it suddenly got very quiet out there.
The bird baths however were still being used extensively ...and then the birds started having to feed the next brood of youngsters and the fat balls in particular are disappearing like snow off a dyke again! I guess they just had enough grub (oops!) without our help ...I hadn't thought of the moult...but it is a fair point of course.