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We have:
Goldfinches
Siskins
A robin
Blackbirds - they are fighting today
Sparrows
Lesser Redpolls
Blue tits - they nest in the spring but are not around the rest of the year
Occasional chaffinches
A thrush
Wood pigeons

And earlier this week a sparrowhawk!

Anyone have anything interesting or fun?

We occasionally have a ring necked parakeet (Scotland)

Wood pigeons
Blackbirds
Redstarts
Blue tits
Sparrows
Woodpecker
Robins
Some kind of finch
A big hawk thing. I think a sparrowhawk.

Ooh, we have siskins too. I never knew their name.

And a couplepf cuckoos.

I have just been rifling through my Garden Bird book as I'm very poor at recognising the really common birds in our garden DH is aghast at how many feeders we have and how many types of food we have.
Anyhow, variously over the last maybe 6 months we have
Jays
Magpies
bloody pigeons
blackbirds & crows
2 robins - they don't get on.
nuthatches
loads of tits! blue, long tailed, and some that are bigger and blacker - coal maybe?
wrens (they are the ones I've been trying to identify!
We have a lovely green woodpecker but don't see him very often.
You can hear the owls but I've never seen them!

We have just had about 15 long tailed tits. They come every year

We generally get blackbirds, dunnocks, blue, coal and great tits, a huge wood pigeon, some sort of hawk and the odd wren.

oh, yes, the occasional chicken - of the "escaped from next door" variety

We get a robin, magpies, the same two pigeons and sometimes starlings.

Non because of the amounts of cats in the area .
Before Christmas I had a beautiful little robin that would sit on my window ledge and look in. He didn't fly off if we opened the window, he would just watch. The neighbours cat killed it .

I love siskins. They are so fun looking. The redpolls are very cute with the wee red fluffy bit on their heads.

Nuthatches are gorgeous! We don't get them up here.

A parakeet is pretty impressive!

We just have two feeders - fat balls and niger seed - and a nest box.

Next door has two cats, there are 3 across the road. The garden is always full of cat shit, so I have no idea why the birds hang around.

We have

Great tits
Blue tits
Sparrows
Wrens
Robins
Jays
Wood pigeons
Magpies
Blackbirds
Occasionally a woodpecker

And a squirrel!

I do get hedgehogs though! and a squirrel that pinches my milk.

Jays, woodpeckers great and green, parakeets, and once a heron! plus the usual stuff

er...some smallish speckle-dy ones, some bigger black ones, the occasional huge black one with a black beak. Oh, and a robin red breast, he's very cute.

I'm not very well educated on birds, I'd love to know what the others are but I haven't a clue. We get quite a lot though.

DS1 (7) did the RSPB bird poll earlier in the year.

According to his log, amongst all the 'pigons', magpies,'blackbids' 'robbings' and so on, we also had 'Blue twits', 'Great twits', 'Egles' and 'perigrin fulcon'

The twits made me smile, the eagles and falcon made me think it was lots of wishful thinking after spending hours watching deadly 60 and the whole lot made me think we need to do a whole lot more on his spelling

We sometimes get green woodpeckers - usually picking stuff off the lawn rather than in the trees, we have loads of little birds in the summer that live in some overgrown blackberry bushes behind our hedge, like blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, green finches. I'll often see 10 or more of them sitting there or flying around each other (we used to have a feeder out for them until it attracted some more undesirable nasties on the ground so we've had to stop that - otherwise they would all be on that or waiting their turn for it, lovely to watch).

Also have herons passing through which are nice and had some jays the other day.

Saw a really strange bird the other day that I still haven't been able to figure out what it was - big, pale speckled brown, big head on a neck that was longer than a gull but shorter than a swan or goose, had a bit of a comedy look about it. Looked on the rspb bird finder but no joy.

And what's a siskin? I've never even heard of them before, let alone know what they are !

We have robins, blackbirds, coal tits, blue tits, magpies, a jay and bull finches (one flew into the window to his death and dd made me leave it there for all to admire!)
We've had some kind of hawk, a green woodpecker and regularly have a six pheasants strutting about the garden. There's an owl at night which i heard constantly whilst breastfeeding but i miss it now dd2 sleeps through. And this is without any feeders up. I really should get some.

Robins, great tits, chaffinchs, magpies, blackbirds, starlings, pigeons, crows, occasional duck. And sometimes a tawny owl passing through in the autumn, which is unusual because we live in a town.

I've also heard a song thrush and I think I've seen a goldfinch, but hard to identify definitely.

goldfinches (my fav)
blue tits
great tits
coal tits
long-tailed tits
collared dove (pair)
pigeon
robin
wren
dunnock
hedge sparrows
blackbirds
chaffinches
greenfinches

We put out seed in the winter.

http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Image:Eurasian_Siskin.jpg a Siskin. Much greener than greenfinches, in my humble opinion.

Your ds sounds lovely zipzap. No idea what your comedy bird could have been. Sometimes the birdfinder struggles with young or winter birds before they get their adult plumage

We saw a great spotted woodpecker the other day, but not in the garden.

The Sparrowhawk surprised me but probably shouldn't have seeing as we are pretty much laying on a feast for it.

www.birdforum.net/opus/Image:Eurasian_Siskin.jpg

Clicky link

We just can't seem to attract tits other than blue tits. But maybe that's because we are not feeding seed other than Niger seed.

None. It's concrete fucking city here.

But! The only signs of greenery in our completly paved back yard is a solitary tree, so I will be fitting it with a couple of bird houses in the hope of housing some bird families. That, and I've plans to nail some wall baskets to the fences and fill with lovely lovely flowers to attract the bees during the warm weather.

Honestly. It's like the folks round my way are allergic to wildlife.

We get;
blue tits
great tits
long-tailed tits
blackbirds
house sparrows
tree sparrows
dunnocks
magpies very occasionally
song thrush
pigeons
collared doves
robins
jays
and once, a sparrowhawk.

Plus a cheeky squirrel who pulls the feeder out of the tree... There's a big hawthorn full of ivy just by the french windows so we watch them every morning and put out several kinds of food - fat balls, seeds, bread etc. And a lovely poster on the wall by the window - http://solitaireshop.com/details/screenprint_birds_detail.html

We often get a pheasant. Its poos are enormous.