[John]

I have four feeding stations with bird tables at three of them. My main feed is Sunflower hearts but I also use a premium seed mix that has a large variety of good seed as well as meal worm mixed in. I also use Peanut and kibbled peanut (crushed), Nyger seed, fat balls plus I make my own concoction from lard, Porridge oats, all the seeds I have mixed up plus in the winter I add mixed fruit to it. It gets ladelled out into Coconut shells and I use the plastic trays that the suet blocks come in to form a square so I can put it into the square suet block cages. It doesn't last long.

I also have a pond and a stream I have built where a lot of birds come to bathe.

I have only lived here three years but I have had a wide variety since I set up the feeding stations. My main visitors are:

Goldfinch
Greenfinch,
Chaffinch
Blue Tit,
Great Tit
Sparrow
Blackbird
Robin
Dunnock
Wren
Starling
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Collared Dove
Wood Pigeon
Magpie
Jackdaw
Sparrowhawk (sits in the tree amongst the feeders)
I had a pair of Bullfinch this year on a daily basis for three months.

Occasional visitors:
Green Woodpecker (on a daily basis at some times in the year)
Coal Tit
Willow Tit
Long-tailed Tit (at times quite often then blank periods)
Brambling
Siskin
Reed Bunting
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Crow
Grey Heron
Mistle Thrush
Song Thrush
Grey Wagtail
Pied Wagtail

Single visits have been

Whitethroat
Goldrcrest
Treecreeper
Nuthatch

Most bizarre in the garden (or should I say house)

Mallard (landed on my roof and stayed there for most of the day)

I also had a Little Owl fly above my head at 00:10 on 06/08/2007. That would have been an unexpected visitor to my garden. Oh well, I can only hope that it decides to land one day where my security lights can pick it up.

John