Garden bird list

[earthdragon64]

I live in Aviemore and have a smallish garden, but there is a footpath which passes the length of the garden and there is a grassy area with trees just the other side of that. There are trees alongside the footpath all the way up to the Birch wood a couple of hundred yards away, and I think this acts as a kind of highway for birds, and the occasional Red Squirrel, from the woods to my garden.

Since about 2005 I've seen 48 species, either in the garden, in the trees and grassy area, on the roof or flying over.

Black-headed Gull
Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue Tit
Brambling
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Greylag Goose
Herring Gull
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Mistle Thrush
Oystercatcher
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Redwing
Robin
Rook
Sand Martin
Siskin
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Swallow
Swift
Treecreeper
Waxwing
Willow Warbler
Wren
Yellowhammer

[Pete Collins]

I live in a large village in the Chilterns, in South Beds. The row of houses backs onto fields or paddocks, and there are hedgerows with several mature trees nearby. The houses on the other side of the road also back onto fields, so despite being in a large village it's a fairly rural location.

My count is 37, I think, counting only birds IN the garden. They've all been seen over the last four years or so.

Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue Tit
Brambling
Bullfinch
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Jay
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Nuthatch
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Redwing
Robin
Rook
Siskin
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Treecreeper
Wood Pigeon
Wren
Yellowhammer

Fly-overs include Buzzard and Red Kite. There's a few more that I've seen FROM the garden, such as a Stock Dove in a neighbour's garden.

[Bethy]

Originally Posted by leifus

goldcrest
red kite
barn owl
little owl
tawny owl
merlin
heron
redstart
spotted flycatcher
Blue tit
Great tit
wren
robin
goldfinch
stock dove
wood pigeon
carrion crow
rook
redwing
fieldfare
song thrush
mistle thrush
dunnock
greenfinch
chaffinch
bulfinch
blackbird
blackcap
brambling
yellowhammer
kestrel
buzzard
magpie
house sparrow
pied wagtail
long tailed tit
grey partridge
red legged partridge
pheasant
collared dove
swallow
house martin
swift
coal tit
nuthatch
jackdaw
Great spotted woodpecker
Green woodpecker
hobby
hawfinch

not bad eh?

NOT BAD! i haven't even seen most of those outside my garden, never mind in it!

[Mark3]

Some really impressive lists, im actually jealous
If you want, we can make it a weekly list. Just post up what has visited your garden during the week, it will be interesting to see the change in species as the seasons change?

Mark

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Mark3

Some really impressive lists, im actually jealous
If you want, we can make it a weekly list. Just post up what has visited your garden during the week, it will be interesting to see the change in species as the seasons change?

Mark

That sounds like it could be interesting So from the past week, incluing today:
Sparrows (en masse )
Blackbirds
Bluetit
Woodpigeons
Collared Doves
Robins
plus fly-overs from:
Red kites
Crows
Heron
Kestrel
Swifts

[Beekeeper]

Jackdaws,
Woodpigeon,
Occasional Gull,
Buzzard,
Sparrow Hawk,
Heron,
Egret,
Swallow,
Blackbird,
Song Thrush,
Magpie,
Jay,
Starling occasionaly, used to have a lot.
Robin,
Wren,
Gold Finch,
Black Cap,
Green Woodpecker, Makes holes in my Beehives---Grrr.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
Great Tit,
Long Tailed Tit,
Blue Tit,
Dunnock,
Sparrow,
Pied Wagtail,
Yellow Wagtail,
Green Finch,
Siskin,
Tawny Owl, Heard but not seen
Little Owl, Ditto
Tree Creaper,

32 in total I have remembered so far.

These are the birds that have personaly visited my garden or heard/seen nearby this year, birds on the New Forest lawns are not included.

There are probably quite a few more, but as my eyesight is not good these days it is a job without glasses to recognise some of them which is so annoying.

BK

[cherrywaff]

i,m worried about the birds that should be in my garden, i have no babies of any discription yet, and very few adult birds i think they have been driven off by crows which have appeared this spring . this time last year i had baby nuthtches ,grt spotted w/pecker , baby robins dunnocks starling blackbirds etc.

[Mark3]

Originally Posted by cherrywaff

i,m worried about the birds that should be in my garden, i have no babies of any discription yet, and very few adult birds i think they have been driven off by crows which have appeared this spring . this time last year i had baby nuthtches ,grt spotted w/pecker , baby robins dunnocks starling blackbirds etc.

I hope the crows go away and the other birds come back, cherrywaff.
This week, we have had
blue tit
great tit
coal tit
robin with young
starlings with young
blackbird
gold finch
wood pidgeon
collard dove

that is what i have seen, there are probably a few others