What birds do you get in your garden

[dunnah01]

Winter wheat gone in so air cannons fired up this weekend - just jackdaws and pigeons now

 

[dabhand]

Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Buzzards
Goosander
Canada Geese
Heron
Kingfisher
Owls
Woodpecker
assortment of tits
Wagtails
Robins
Crows
Mallards
Magpies
Dippers
Wood Pigeons
Doves
Finch
Thrush
and several I haven’t got a clue about

plus a field full of twitchers a couple of years ago cos apparently a very rare bird stopped for a couple of days en route to somewhere exotic, I think they said a Siberian something or other, can’t remember now.

 

[L' Hobo]

Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Buzzards
Goosander
Canada Geese
Heron
Kingfisher
Owls
Woodpecker
assortment of tits
Wagtails
Robins
Crows
Mallards
Magpies
Dippers
Wood Pigeons
Doves
Finch
Thrush
and several I haven’t got a clue about

plus a field full of twitchers a couple of years ago cos apparently a very rare bird stopped for a couple of days en route to somewhere exotic, I think they said a Siberian something or other, can’t remember now.

All in your back garden, Wow!

(I thought, after you had said Kestral, Sparrow Hawk and Buzzard, you were going to say, Nothing!)

 

[dabhand]

All in your back garden, Wow!

(I thought, after you had said Kestral, Sparrow Hawk and Buzzard, you were going to say, Nothing!)

Erm, back garden

 

[Nirvanauk]

This is what I get by the score. Bloody Rooks! Completely destroyed my lawn looking for chafer grubs!

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[Mrsambulancekidd]

Caught this when I came into the room with a nice cup of tea and happened to have my phone in my pocket, this cheeky sparrow does this most days and as you can see, Pepsi is intrigued.

 

[davanne]

Caught this when I came into the room with a nice cup of tea and happened to have my phone in my pocket, this cheeky sparrow does this most days and as you can see, Pepsi is intrigued.

Hazel we have a robin that sits on the back door handle and pecks on the glass and a blue tit that sits on the kitchen window sill looking in if we haven’t put the bird food out.

 

[pappajohn]

Related to the kiwi and Do-Do.
All three flightless but the tree rat does try

 

[pappajohn]

Really struggled to get a decent picture of this great spotted woodpecker.
Never seen one before anywhere.

Book picture

 

[cyberyacht]

Talking of cheeky birds. When I used to be working on my yacht in the winter, as soon and I opened my sandwich box, a robin would fly in and perch on the edge of my chart table. Even land on my back whilst I was grovelling over the engine once.

As for what ones I get in the garden. Only feathered ones.

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[Dobby 2]

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

At a guess a leucistic robin or dunnock

 

[Abacist]

 

[Abacist]

The above pics are of a Nuthatch which is a rather beautiful small and wary bird who frequents our garden annually. About the size of a Greenfinch.

 

[Abacist]

 

[Granjan]

Up the Lane today so not quite in our garden, we think its a Woodcock.

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[mitzimad]

when we finally move to Harwich from outer London our feathered friends will be less exotic as we have flocks of parakeets round here ,although we have seen a pair of great woodpeckers in harwich which id never seen before

 

[TheAleMan]

You won’t miss the Parakeets, noisy little sods, although they’ll probably catch up with you one day such as their expansion .

 

[L' Hobo]

You won’t miss the Parakeets, noisy little sods, although they’ll probably catch up with you one day such as their expansion .

Yep! They started in the UK near where I use to live near Esher in Surrey.

The story goes that some escaped when they were filming 'The African Queen' at Shepperton Studios and they have just increased and now there are thousands around Surrey and other places?

Little buggers used to strip my Cherry trees every year!

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

Pleased to report that we have long tailed tits visiting our feeder, Robert saw them first, then I was lucky enough to see a mob of them.
Such beautiful birds.

 

[Muddywheeler]

We have this cheeky little sod on our feeder quite a few of them round here.

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[davanne]

Pleased to report that we have long tailed tits visiting our feeder, Robert saw them first, then I was lucky enough to see a mob of them.
Such beautiful birds.

We get them too Hazel not all the time but they come every so often.
I agree they are beautiful and ours come in a mob as well.

 

[funflair]

You won’t miss the Parakeets, noisy little sods, although they’ll probably catch up with you one day such as their expansion .

They are up as far as Birmingham as I saw/heard a load last time we were at Jens mums house in Sutton Coldfield.

 

[JnJ]

We had two regular yellow hammers last year. This year we have at least five.

 

[DavidG58]

Our yellow hammers are back as well, only get them in the garden when cold

 

[L' Hobo]

Our yellow hammers are back as well, only get them in the garden when cold

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I wonder why there called 'Hammers'? I can understand the Yellow bit.

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[DavidG58]

I wonder why there called 'Hammers'? I can understand the Yellow bit.

I didn’t know either

 

[DavidG58]

Very pleased with these visitors, been three days running now

Red legged partridge

 

[dryad]

70 odd years ago, when I was a child on my Fathers farm, he used to say that if the Rooks nested high in the trees, we were in for a good year/winter.
If they nested lower, be prepared for harsher conditions.

It nice to read that you appreciate your surrounding. Sadly, many do not in todays world!

noticed the rookeries around here by the boatyard are high in the tall trees, hopefully the predictions for the year are correct after such a wet and windy lead up so far..

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[CWH]

Currently, within the front grass area: 2 m & 1 f greenfinch, 3 m & 3 f chaffinch, a couple of dozen goldfinch, 2 m reed bunting, 2 skylark, 1 f and 3 m rock dove, a m blackbird and a pair of hooded crow. In the last few days also the occasional appearance of a pair of wheatear (not together though), a pair of siskin, and a pair of linnet.
We're all keeping our fingers crossed for the pair of lapwing that may/ may not have decided to settle on the croft. It might be better if they decide to go over the hill as the 3 pairs that stayed last year had their nests flooded or predated and the 3 hatchlings never made it to anywhere near adulthood.
There are 2 greylag geese doing a daily fly-over.
The sparrows have taken a liking to the new shed.

 

[TinaLes]

We have seen Red Kite numbers increase dramatically over the past few years down here in Camberley,Surrey, they first appeared over our allotments area, now they soar everywhere. Such large wingspans, they glide so easily at great speed up & down. But the strange thing is I have never seen one land or rousting in a tree?
I wonder why, apart from swooping down on their prey, they must land for a break somewhere, but I have not spotted them in any large trees.
LES

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