birds in your garden

[arnie4u]

I have had a lonely little redwing, in my garden for the last month, poor little thing all on its own I do have a few big trees,conifer,apple ect!
Seems to be cool with me putting apple out for it.Comes down to eat it gives it a right nibble
Really pretty bird. The first time Ive seen one and especially in my own garden shame its on its own though, beautiful bird just thought i would share.
Any ways as it comes to the birdies ive had a few myself.

Bare with me as ive just wrote it out the list and the stories that go with it and before i posted it i lost it.

So i will try again lol.
blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits. gold crests, goldfinches, yellow hammers, reed buntings
green finches, chaffinches, blackbirds, song thrushes, mistle thrush, redwing as i said above first time for that one.
jays, magpies, jackdaws, crows, herons, coots,ducks yes i know but they decided to jump in the fish pond, had moorhen to.
not so many sparrows but i still get a few, greater spotted wood pecker, not seen him for a while though.
sparrow hawk , actually catching its prey, not sure if that is one of the best things ive seen doing, the way they come flying in and grabs their prey then plucks it . just something great about how it works.
also started seeing buzzards over the last 5 or 6 years, i only ever seen them in devon or cornwall but now they seem to be coming up here in the north west.
red footed falcon on my garden path, had to video tape that as i wasn't sure what it was, and my brother is better at the naming birds of prey .
Not sure if i have missed any out, if so am sorry and i hope you enjoy reading what i have put down.
happy bird watching peeps!!

[big bill]

Normal run of the mill birds

Blackbird
Starling
Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Siskin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Dunnock
House Sparrow
Collared Dove
Feral Pigeon
Robin


and surprisingly in the last 2 days possiblly due to weather

Yellowhammer
Pied Wagtail

[arnie4u]

Originally Posted by big bill

Normal run of the mill birds

Blackbird
Starling
Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Siskin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Dunnock
House Sparrow
Collared Dove
Feral Pigeon
Robin


and surprisingly in the last 2 days possiblly due to weather

Yellowhammer
Pied Wagtail

cool pictures there m8!

[arnie4u]

Originally Posted by arnie4u

I have had a lonely little redwing, in my garden for the last month, poor little thing all on its own I do have a few big trees,conifer,apple ect!
Seems to be cool with me putting apple out for it.Comes down to eat it gives it a right nibble
Really pretty bird. The first time Ive seen one and especially in my own garden shame its on its own though, beautiful bird just thought i would share.
Any ways as it comes to the birdies ive had a few myself.

Bare with me as ive just wrote it out the list and the stories that go with it and before i posted it i lost it.

So i will try again lol.
blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits. gold crests, goldfinches, yellow hammers, reed buntings
green finches, chaffinches, blackbirds, song thrushes, mistle thrush, redwing as i said above first time for that one.
jays, magpies, jackdaws, crows, herons, coots,ducks yes i know but they decided to jump in the fish pond, had moorhen to.
not so many sparrows but i still get a few, greater spotted wood pecker, not seen him for a while though.
sparrow hawk , actually catching its prey, not sure if that is one of the best things ive seen doing, the way they come flying in and grabs their prey then plucks it . just something great about how it works.
also started seeing buzzards over the last 5 or 6 years, i only ever seen them in devon or cornwall but now they seem to be coming up here in the north west.
red footed falcon on my garden path, had to video tape that as i wasn't sure what it was, and my brother is better at the naming birds of prey .
Not sure if i have missed any out, if so am sorry and i hope you enjoy reading what i have put down.
happy bird watching peeps!!

just got wood pigeons now, and dunnocks and a new bird which i don't have a clue what it is.

[Guinnessman1974]

The most interesting birds ever seen in my garden are Blackcap (female), Sparrowhawk (female), a partially albino House Sparrow, and - bizarrely - a Orange Weaver bird (Northern Bishop)! It brightened up the bird table for a few weeks!

[Snuckie]

Hi

I've only been feeding the birds this winter but I do have some regular visitors

Blue tit, Great tit, Coal tit, Chaffinch, Green finch, Gold finch, Blackbirds, Robins,

The gold finches eat quite happily with the other birds on the sunflower feeders as all my feeders are quite close together.

I have now bought finch mix and a 6 port feeder. The green finches have used it along with the great tits. The green finch has also used my feeder with feeder mix in it. All the tits seem to like the table with mealworms etc on it which was meant for the robins. The robins do like it too.

Oh well I'm sure they know what they're doing.

Other birds who live in our fields or the wood behind our house are pigeons, crows, magpies, jays, a pair of pheasants, a pair of buzzzards. The buzzards raised a family last year. Hope they do so this year as well. I hear owls at night but don't know what kind. I've probably missed some. I'm also waiting for the swifts to arrive.

Gina

[Tracey.A]

I don't have a graden, but I do have a small wooded area behind my flat and since I've lived here I have had:-

Blue tits
Great tits
Coal tits
Long-tailed tits
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush
Peacocks
Goldcrest
rooks
Jackdaws
Carrion crows
Green finch
Collared dove
Woodpigeon
Pied wagtails
Grey wagtail
Wren
Buzzard
Great spotted woodpecker
Tawny owls
Bullfinch
Tree creeper
Magpie
Starlings
Chaffinch
Goldfinch

I think that completes my list All pretty common, but lovely to see

Tracey

[thebeard]

what big lists everyone has!!!
in the heart of nottingham, my garden isn't surrounded by much wildl areas, but i suspect very few birds visited before i moved here. cleared the garden and i regularly get
blackbirds
wood pigeons
feral pigeons
1 great tit
dunnocks
wrens
and a rat.

not a very big list, but i'm happy enough with it, its better than nothing. i've got to know a few of them too, theres a pair of blackbirds which seem to have paired up, not so fortunate was the male with white bits on his head, not so good looking maybe.

the rat is fun to watch too