Hi,
I'm a newbie so thought i'd say hi. I've only really been into birds for about 2 years or so. We moved to a house with a decent sized garden and the lawn looked so bare, so I bought a bird table and feeders. Well from that moment on i've been hooked. (I had a bird table in my last garden, but hadn't really spent too much time watching)
I work from home a lot of the time, and my P.C is in my kitchen looking out through patio doors onto the garden. This means I spend more time looking out of the window than typing up notes most days.
Among the daily visitors at the moment are,
Goldfinches (around 8-10 at a time come during parts of the day)
Greenfinches
Siskins
Blue Titis
Coal Titis
Great Tits
Robin (which seems to own part of the garden and is very tame)
Starlings (sometimes upto about 20 at a time)
Collard Doves (again sometimes I'm over run)
Wood Pigeons (same as above,lol)
Dunnock
Siskins
Wren (though to be fair I see it mostly on the fence, not IN the garden)
Blackbirds (around 4 or 5)
Chaffinch
Sparrows
Jay (a favourite of mine)
Those are the birds I see from between several times a day, to at least once every other day at the moment. I've also recently had a Great Spotted Woodpecker which was an exciting moment. Also, once or twice I have had visits from a male Sparrow Hawk.
I'm hoping as the weeks go by now to see some long tailed tits and song thrushes, as I had them last spring (so fingers crossed).
I'm constantly trying different feeders (the garden is exposed, and finding ones that keep food dry in these wintery rainy days is a nightmare) and the birds seem to adapt to them instantly. I use a wide variety of foods and actually have a large plastic container that I mix a variety of seed mixes, dried mealworm and fat pellets into. Most mornings, I see the merry dance led between the Robin and Blackbirds before daybreak. It seems a daily routine of working out who owns the garden that day. When I'm out filling the feeders, the Robin hops onto the fence from next door (where I think it lives) ready to get in first.
I do have lots of photos i'll load up and post when I get the time. I hate to disturb the birds, so I do take most of my pics from about 12 feet inside my Kitchen, through closed patio doors. Given that most of the feeding is going on some 30-40 feet into the garden, you'll understand the pics aren't great. But I look forward to sharing them. Are you still awake after this post,lol.
Hi all 
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