What birds do you get in your garden

[davanne]

We have seen Red Kite numbers increase dramatically over the past few years down here in Camberley, they first appeared over our allotments area, now they fly 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.
LES

.We have loads of red kites and as we live at the top of the hill we can see them soaring below us. Our little granddaughter was amazed watching them at the weekend she said they were beautiful.

 

[CWH]

Enjoying looking out this morning: all the usual finches & other garden birds that we have in varying numbers all year round, plus:

• snippets from the twite/ linnet/ redpoll mixed flock that comes every year
• a pair of first-year collared doves - very unusual hereabouts - though there was one confirmed last year
• and really chuffed to see the male hen harrier just over the wall, and as he went across the bottom croft field two lapwings rose in defence of their scrape, I thought I saw him go to ground but there's been no further lapwing activity
• AND as I have the binocs out - I've just seen a gannet hit the water just offshore on the loch

Woo-hoo! a good birding day so far, even though it's too cold to go outside

 

[davanne]

We had goldfinches this morning

 

[CWH]

We had goldfinches this morning

Don't mean to brag but we have a regular flock of about 40-50, love to see them bouncing in

 

[davanne]

Don't mean to brag but we have a regular flock of about 40-50, love to see them bouncing in

Only a pair here Wendy and they only come occasionally

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[Folkranger]

Not sure of their names........
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Tits?

 

[Diabalo]

Tits?

Great tits for sure, just Googled them

 

[Folkranger]

Great tits for sure, just Googled them

Did you not mean ogled them, or maybe goggled them?

And although they all looked great, I'm sure some of them might have been blue.

 

[CWH]

Only a pair here Wendy and they only come occasionally

Such beautiful wee birds, doesn't matter whether one or a hundred, they have such striking colours and a startling 'design'

 

[CazPaul]

It’s lovely Spring my favourite season, today a pair of collared doves nesting, Song Thrush, sparrows, lapwings flying overhead, Curlews, Sparrowhawk, Snipe humming overhead, goldfinch. Grouse calling.

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[CazPaul]

Saw this unusual flock this morning then I couldn’t find the bloody dog.

 

[CWH]

Mrs Wheatear (who's been hanging around for a while) came across to the house side of the drive today. They tend to nest in the wall just across.

 

[CWH]

A male pied wagtail has joined the feeder flock
A definite "pair" of great tit
5 greylag geese are overnighting nearer and nearer to this edge of the croft
And the cuckoo that's been spotted over the last week or so has started calling occasionally

 

[dazandandrea]

Id like a lot more Tits in ours .
Wife says im the only tit in the garden.

We do get blue tits, robins, thrush, black birds, pigeons, sparrows. Only a small garden.

 

[Beany 996]

We get many different birds over the course of the year with some surprising winter visitors including Brambling,Siskin,Redpolls. But generally normal garden birds and some less common ones Treecreeper,Nuthatch,Mistle Thrush, Whitethroats.
I did install camera boxes a few years back which opened our eyes to how tough nature can be. At present we have 2 female Mallards in one duck box, 1 Great Tit , 2 Blue Tits and a Stock Dove fingers crossed they manage to fledge.

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[CWH]

The male cuckoo who's been hanging around made a definite visit to the garden this morning, just a few yards from my bedroom window. I hope he doesn't decide that's where he will stay once he switches on his 24/7 cuckooing

 

[Muddywheeler]

We had a rather unlucky visitor in our garden the other day! Just about to have dinner when I saw two birds fall to the ground,looked out the window to see a starling attacking a swift they share nesting space under the eaves it must of turned up too early and the starlings got the hump. By the time I got out there to sort it out a sparrow hawk had the poor little bugger in its talons which the flew into the puppy proof gate I’d put into the garden,I side stepped the hawk which then dropped the Swift and flew off. On inspecting the bird found it was bleeding so put it on top of a shed by the house to recover. Just sit down for dinner when the starlings have another go at him forcing it to the ground again.

Finished my dinner thought better see if it’s still alive to find next door’s cat trying to get to it through the fence around our back door. I rescued it and get a punctured finger from the bird, ungrateful sod ,he squeezed through the fence and took off from the ground which I didn’t think they could do and was last seen being chased over my house by the bloody starlings.

 

[CWH]

We had a rather unlucky visitor in our garden the other day! Just about to have dinner when I saw two birds fall to the ground,looked out the window to see a starling attacking a swift they share nesting space under the eaves it must of turned up too early and the starlings got the hump. By the time I got out there to sort it out a sparrow hawk had the poor little bugger in its talons which the flew into the puppy proof gate I’d put into the garden,I side stepped the hawk which then dropped the Swift and flew off. On inspecting the bird found it was bleeding so put it on top of a shed by the house to recover. Just sit down for dinner when the starlings have another go at him forcing it to the ground again.

Finished my dinner thought better see if it’s still alive to find next door’s cat trying to get to it through the fence around our back door. I rescued it and get a punctured finger from the bird, ungrateful sod ,he squeezed through the fence and took off from the ground which I didn’t think they could do and was last seen being chased over my house by the bloody starlings.

Wow that all sounds a bit over-exciting!!!

 

[KUSKUS]

Recent visitor to garden, never seen a Sparrowhawk this big before, presume its a female ?

 

[Speve]

What a beauty I would assume female as it does not have any Rufus hue to it

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[davanne]

we regularly get sparrow hawks in the garden

 

[DavidG58]

Talking sparrowhawks , just had this one outside our bedroom window

Regular visitors here as well, but only occasional get a kill

 

[L' Hobo]

Talking sparrowhawks , just had this one outside our bedroom window

Regular visitors here as well, but only occasional get a kill

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Blends in well with it's surroundings. Nice picture!

 

[CWH]

Woo-hoo! I can now claim Hen Harrier as an actual garden bird, not just over the wall! An adult female swooped right across the front of the house, about knee-height (my knee, not hers) - no more than 3 meters away from me, sitting in the window, so I had an amazing view! then she sat on the wall just across the driveway. So happy!

 

[davanne]

We had a pair of marsh tits on the feeders the other day

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[denisejoe]

 

[KUSKUS]

We get a woodpecker visit most days, these two were visitors earlier this year.

 

[KNWH]

Don't mean to brag but we have a regular flock of about 40-50, love to see them bouncing in

The collective name for goldfinches is a charm, which I always think is quite appropriate

 

[Two on Tour]

We are lucky enough to have Red Kites flying over use most day's.
We put food out for them now and again, like now in the cold weather and when they are breeding.

This was our visitor yesterday.

 

[davanne]

We have red kites above us most days too amazing to watch

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