Garden bird list

[Mark3]

Hi all,
i dont know if this has already been done but i think it would be nice if everyone (who wants to) put a list of the birds that have visited their garden. Just give a quick description of the habitat around you and a list of birds that have visited your garden during the day. I dont work for anyone and im not collecting data, just asking out of interest

What do you think?

Thanks, Mark

[agrumpycow]

I'm in a suburb of a large town, a few hundred metres (as the crow flies ) from the Thames & open countryside and on a 'green corridor' of urban parks which crosses one side of the town to the other. In the last couple of years we've seen (not including fly-overs)
Dunnock
Blackbird
Robin
Carrion crow
Jay
Magpie
Chaffinch
Long-tailed tit
Wood pigeon
Collared dove
House Sparrow
Starling
Blue tit
Coal tit
Great tit
Blackcap
Green woodpecker
Lesser spotted woodpecker
Sparrowhawk

[Cazzie]

I live on a 1930's estate on the edge of a town too. I've only been here for 3 months but sadly haven't spied many birds at all despite feeding them!...

House Sparrow
Blackbird
Thrush
Pigeons

and that's sadly it so far

[Tracey.A]

I live in Dunfermline, Fife. I don't have a garden, although I do have a small courtyard, but at the back of my flat there are a mix of trees, sycamore, horse chestnut, ash, a massive laurel, a grass verge, nettles, a small hawthorn and a burn (small stream) and a bridge.

I have seen the fllowing:-

Wood pigeon
Collared dove
Jackdaws
Carrion crow
Magpie
Buzzard
Robin
House sparrow
Dunnock
Song thrush
Blackbird
Wren
Willow warbler
Blue tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Long-tailed tit
Bullfinch
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Starling
Tawny owl
Pied wagtail
Swallows
Gold crest

I know there are many that I have forgotten, so I will add them on later

Tracey

[lewiso]

i live in stoke in a semi built up area lots of fields about a mile away. i to have only been in my house about 3 ,onths but so far weve seen.....

house sparrow
blue tit
coal tit
great tit
robin
wood pigeon
collard dove
blackbird
starling
sparrowhawk.... after crashing into one of my bushes
i think thats it.

[Mark3]

Claire, some nice birds in your list Give it time Cazzie and you should get more visitors.
I live on the edge of town next to a woodland, sort of in the woodland if you include the trees on the street The woodland is mainly beech and turns into upland oak woodland as you go up the valley, then your on the moors.
Over the years i have seen,
Blackbird
Dunnock
Song thrush
Wood pidgeon
Jay
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
House sparrow
Great spotted woodpecker
Sparrow hawk
Tawny owl
Nuthatch
Great tit
Coal tit
Blue tit
Long-tailed tit
Wren
Robin
Starling
Collard dove
Magpie

I think that is all of them

[metalfish]

I live in the middle of Eastbourne in a short line of terraced houses, between us we have a fair few trees, bushes and an unkempt garden or two. After two years of regular feeding and a bird bath we only get a few birds..
In winter
1 robin
1 blackbird
up to 5 blue tits
1 thrush
3 wood pigeons
2 dunnocks
1 chiff chaff
3 collared doves

in summer

a pair of robins
a pair of blackbirds
2 pairs of collred doves
a pair of dunnocks
2 pairs of wood pigeons

When we were first here there was only 1 or 2 bird visits a week, I don't know if all the gulls put the little birds off. I came here from a wildflower farm which was bird heaven so its been a bit of a sad change

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Cazzie

I live on a 1930's estate on the edge of a town too. I've only been here for 3 months but sadly haven't spied many birds at all despite feeding them!...

House Sparrow
Blackbird
Thrush
Pigeons

and that's sadly it so far

I'll bet you get more than that Cazzie! Quite a few of those on my list I've only seen once briefly and I guess I only saw them because we have a small table & chairs in our kitchen right infront of the double doors out into the garden. We sit there a lot when we're at home so see a lot of what goes on.

[sandmanpete]

Hi Mark,
I am in Dorset we have a field behind us with trees between us and the field we have seen around 30 species these are the ones I can remember
The field floods from time to time so we get some water birds as well
Heron
Swan
Buzzard
Pheasant
Magpie
Jay
Wood pigeon
Collar Dove
Mallards
Feral Pigeon
Blackbird
Mistle Thrush
Sparrow Hawk
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Sparrows
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Longtailed Tit
Coal Tit
Wrens
Goldcrest
Dunnock
Blackcaps
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Starlings
Heron Gulls
Wagtails
Nuthatch
and a few unidentified which I am working on
hope to update this soon
Pete

[barquar]

Originally Posted by sandmanpete

Hi Mark,
I am in Dorset we have a field behind us with trees between us and the field we have seen around 30 species these are the ones I can remember
The field floods from time to time so we get some water birds as well
Heron
Swan
Buzzard
Pheasant
Magpie
Jay
Wood pigeon
Collar Dove
Mallards
Feral Pigeon
Blackbird
Mistle Thrush
Sparrow Hawk
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Sparrows
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Longtailed Tit
Coal Tit
Wrens
Goldcrest
Dunnock
Blackcaps
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Starlings
Heron Gulls
Wagtails
Nuthatch
and a few unidentified which I am working on
hope to update this soon
Pete

I will swop you houses you lucky devil.
Barquar