What's your favourite bird?

[Queen bee]

As said. Preferably in the British Isles

My favourite would have to be a coal tit-- they're so full of character! When we had a window seed feeder, they would come and chuck the seeds out one by one until they found a sunflower seed! If the sparrows tried to push them off, they'd hiss, fluff up to look bigger and open their beaks really wide.

[MagpieMick]

Kingfisher for me amazing colour, great to watch..

[stephen p]

thats a hard one

Well it's got to be the Kingfisher i saw my first one in March and have seen 4 more since.
BUT..... i recently saw a Red Kite and was amazed, so im going to have to say My Favourites BIRDS are the Kingfisher and the Red Kite.

[Kayleigh]

Mine has to be the barn owl that flew inches from the windscreen of my parked car with a mouse in its beak. Or the equally close encounter of the buzzard chasing a rabbit down a country lane just in front of our car... Fantastic memories.

[tufftie]

Lapwings - sometimes a friend and i used to take sleeping bags down to the hide at the Loons and wake to hear and see their displays - great to sit watching them with a mug of tea!

[The Black Rabbit]

The Swifts.
Roll on the end of April!
Doug

[Dae]

That's a toughy. I have favorites both over here in the UK and back where I came from in the US.

However, I have to say that my favorite here is the Red Kite. I first saw these in the first year I came to stay in the UK and fell in love. It's a gorgeous bird that I don't get the opportunity to see too often. Hopefully will see them again soon!

[rainmaker]

Depends on the season really.

Blackbirds in spring - their song is just beautiful;
There's a host in summer - sparrows (simple, but 'appy that's me ) because of the family as a whole, twittering away in the trees, bickering at the feeders; housemartins at the local RHS place I volunteer, aerial acrobatics all over the show - including inside the potting sheds!
Autumn & winter - tits of all shapes and sizes, brave and cheeky Oh, and also the starlings, beligerent to say the least. Oh, and the Jay - just beautiful colouring
All year round interest, I love my pair of nuthatches that are regular in the garden, funny in the autumn when they start jamming nuts into any nook and cranny they can find.
And then there's the robin, they seem to love posing for the camera.
And who can be fail to be moved by the rarer sights - birds of prey, owls, kingfishers.

And then of course, there's the times that the hard work of providing food for the birds gives you new species in the garden - the woodpecker, the pair of gold finches, the greenfinches, the , the , the , the.....

Its a symbiosis-type thing for me - if any one was missing, there'd be something majorly wrong....

[peppermint]

I love robins,swallows and pied wagtails

[glsammy]

I'm going for Dunnock. Simply because we have three resident in our Garden and are a delight to watch.