What birds do you get in your garden

[The Wino]

We've got this white bird we keep seeing. I thought it was an albino sparrow but got a closer look today the picture is just on the phone but it's more the shape of a robin.

 

[CWH]

We've got this white bird we keep seeing. I thought it was an albino sparrow but got a closer look today the picture is just on the phone but it's more the shape of a robin. View attachment 637130

Would love to see some more photos especially a profile picture & focusing on the beak & head (I know I'm asking a lot!)

 

[The Wino]

We've got this white bird we keep seeing. I thought it was an albino sparrow but got a closer look today the picture is just on the phone but it's more the shape of a robin. View attachment 637130

I was getting all excited thinking it was rare but now I'm wondering if it's an escaped white canary.

 

[The Wino]

Would love to see some more photos especially a profile picture & focusing on the beak & head (I know I'm asking a lot!)

I'm going to get the SLR camera out and charged ready it's been around a few weeks now

 

[Abacist]

Update on the Kestrels

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[tribalbrit]

Bloody kestrel yesterday, took a dove chick out of the nest in our conifer tree, I was out in the garden as all hell broke loose with the doves attacking the kestrel. I managed to scare it off and it dropped the chick, eventually. I put it back in the nest and all seems fine today.
Have put buntings up in the tree to scare kestrel away.

 

[DavidG58]

Today I have had this treat right outside our bedroom window

Last week we had this

Seen both in garden before but both rare visitors

 

[Bailey58]

Had a jay in the garden yesterday but birds have been sparse around here since earlier this year. We have one feeder near the kitchen which is getting used by sparrows but those in the garden are virtually untouched. Even the fatballs are going mouldy and they usually get eaten by the crows from the fields. We put it down to the hot summer sending them elsewhere.

 

[CWH]

We've not been feeding the birds for a while now, since we had an obviously poorly pigeon rock dove and flu is rife hereabouts. Now the freezing nights have started I suppose we'll start feeding again (and breaking ice on the birdbath). A few snipe, redwing and fieldfare about.

 

[The Wino]

We've not been feeding the birds for a while now, since we had an obviously poorly pigeon rock dove and flu is rife hereabouts. Now the freezing nights have started I suppose we'll start feeding again (and breaking ice on the birdbath). A few snipe, redwing and fieldfare about.

We stopped when we saw a few rats around. Shot one with the air rifle stopped putting the food out and never seen another.

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[Spriddler]

The birds in my garden have dwindled this year and even the wildlife recording camera that I set up a couple of months ago hasn't shown any predators that might be discouraging them.
(But on T.V. I did see Arkwright up a ladder hoping to get a treat inside Nurse Gladys's bedroom window).

 

[L' Hobo]

I still get my Finches, Sparrows, Dunnocks etc (I purposely put my small mesh feeder in the centre of the large Rambling Rose so that only the small birds can get to it) but less than last year which I suppose is to be expected as this area has been decimated by Avian Flu.

Where we would normally see, at this time of year, about 25 Swans on the meadows near the old water mill, this year, only one was to be seen last week. Similar numbers in the duck population.

 

[Liverpoollass]

Today I have had this treat right outside our bedroom window

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Last week we had this

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Seen both in garden before but both rare visitors

Ooh you lucky thing

Today I have had this treat right outside our bedroom window

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Last week we had this

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Seen both in garden before but both rare visitors

You lucky thing, our garden birds make a quick dash in and out since the Sparrow hawk made an appearance

 

[L' Hobo]

Ooh you lucky thing

You lucky thing, our garden birds make a quick dash in and out since the Sparrow hawk made an appearance

This was one reason I put mine in the large Rambling Rose, no large birds can swoop in without getting their wings damaged and they won't do that.

 

[Liverpoollass]

This was one reason I put mine in the large Rambling Rose, no large birds can swoop in without getting their wings damaged and they won't do that.

Sounds like a plan...will have a look at that idea, we have large bushes but no rambling rose..

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[TheAleMan]

Today I have had this treat right outside our bedroom window

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Last week we had this

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Seen both in garden before but both rare visitors

Lovely, and a goldcrest too.

 

[davanne]

We have had a mistletoe thrush over the last few days (well I think it is)
loads of sparrows blue tits , coal tits, long tail tits, chaffinches, woodpecker and a little wren.
We are quite lucky as we back onto woodland. Sorry don’t know why I have posted more than one picture .

 

[Speve]

We have had a mistletoe thrush over the last few days (well I think it is)
loads of sparrows blue tits , coal tits, long tail tits, chaffinches, woodpecker and a little wren.
We are quite lucky as we back onto woodland. Sorry don’t know why I have posted more than one picture .
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Think you will find that is a Song Thrush a mistletoe Thrush is slightly larger and back is usually slightly paler but look after it as Song Thrushes are in decline

 

[davanne]

Think you will find that is a Song Thrush a mistletoe Thrush is slightly larger and back is usually slightly paler but look after it as Song Thrushes are in decline

Thank you we couldn’t decide if it was a mistletoe thrush or song thrush.
There we’re two of them last week but over the last couple of days there is only one I hope its mate is ok as we do have a sparrow hawk in the area.

 

[Gooney]

I’ve seen most of the birds mentioned but we get a rather unusual visitor that lands in the very long grass at the end of the garden, apparently the bird is called a Fukarewe, this bird has very short legs and when it lands in the long grass it’s heard to call, wherethefukarewe, wherethefukarewe.

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[Spriddler]

I’ve seen most of the birds mentioned but we get a rather unusual visitor that lands in the very long grass at the end of the garden, apparently the bird is called a Fukarewe, this bird has very short legs and when it lands in the long grass it’s heard to call, wherethefukarewe, wherethefukarewe.

Nah, down South here it's known as the Oomagoolis bird.

 

[Gooney]

Nah, down South here it's known as the Oomagoolis bird.

Trouble with your name definition is it’s sex dependant, hens don’t have goolies

 

[Speve]

Thank you we couldn’t decide if it was a mistletoe thrush or song thrush.
There we’re two of them last week but over the last couple of days there is only one I hope its mate is ok as we do have a sparrow hawk in the area.

Mistle Thrush (photos courtesy of (ebird.org)

Song Thrush

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

We have a song thrush here, it is a beauty, big and healthy.

We also have blue tits, great tits, loads of sparrows, doves, crows, dunnocks, starlings, chaffinch, woodpecker and even a Barn Owl landed on the feeder once.

 

[CWH]

Golden eagle quite low over the garden today

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[cliffanger]

We have wanted ones - tits, chaffinch, goldfinch, sparrows, robins etc, but also unwanted ones ….

The demon fish thief …..

 

[Norfolk Nige]

We had a Marsh Harrier quartering our field at the end of the garden, then flew over it. Song Thrush in the garden, plenty of migratory blackbirds as well as Robins, Wrens and assorted Finches. Way too many Wood Pigeons though.

 

[davanne]

Way too many Wood Pigeons though.

A couple of months ago we had a pesky pair of wood pigeons who were eating all the bird food but they suddenly disappeared and we haven’t seen them for a few weeks. The food is lasting a lot longer now.
I wonder if the sparrow hawk had them.

 

[Bailey58]

I’ve seen most of the birds mentioned but we get a rather unusual visitor that lands in the very long grass at the end of the garden, apparently the bird is called a Fukarewe, this bird has very short legs and when it lands in the long grass it’s heard to call, wherethefukarewe, wherethefukarewe.

I see you haven't lost your sense of humour Tony!

 

[Coolcats]

When we lived in Lancashire we used to have quite a few birds in the garden but since moving here to South Wales we have a lot more species visiting us. We are lucky that we have woodland surrounding two sides of the garden.
This morning we were visited by a mistle thrush and one night last week we had a tawny owl.
Our regulars are
Blue tits
Coal tits
Long tailed tits
Great tits
Chaffinch
Bull finch
Greenfinch
Sparrows
Dunnocks
Woodpeckers
Collared dove
Robins
Sparrow hawk
Starlings
Wrens
Pied wagtails
Blackbirds
Nuthatches
Jays
We don’t seem to get the bigger birds like crows and jackdaws and magpies but they seem to go into our neighbours garden

Sparrow hawk stops by every now and then to help itself to a snack.

I did get to hear a gull decapitating a dove on our extension roof when I looked it flew off but must have come back for the rest as it’s body wasn’t there a while later

It’s a cruel world out there

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