Which birds visit your garden?

[LordWontYouBuyMeAMercedesBenz]

I've recently found a new love of birds. I've bought some feeders and have really enjoyed seeing the different types of birds coming to eat. So aibu to ask you to tell me what birds you've seen visiting your garden and what you like about them so I can look out for them in mine?

[mumsiedarlingrevolta]

DH a mad twitcher.
We have lots of feeders in out small town garden and have lovely birds.
Recent success was to change to sunflower hearts (not seeds) and we now have a little flock of goldfinches visiting.

[TheQueenOfWands]

I've got two fat bastard pigeons who live in my garden.

Been there years. Had no idea pigeons have such long life spans.

They seem to have adopted me.

It's come to the point where I think of them as my pigeons and have tacked the buggers onto my list of things to worry about.

[OutingMyDog]

Magpies
Crows
Jackdaws
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Blue tits
Great tits
Blackbirds
Starlings
Robins
The occasional Thrush
Wrens
Black headed gulls if we've thrown bread crusts or something out
One time I saw a pair of woodpeckers but never since

[froomeonthebroom]

Just sparrows. Little feathery bastards.

[OutingMyDog]

I like all of them really. I love seeing the tiny wrens and have a soft spot for robins and magpies.

We have buzzards over the house quite often and I love hearing them call. We sometimes get a red kite too which is special.

[steff13]

We might not have the same birds because I'm in Ohio. But we usually get cardinals, robins, goldfinches, titmice, starlings, crows, hummingbirds, blue jays, woodpeckers, sparrows, hawks, and turkey buzzards if there's something dead in the woods behind our house.

[Nevercallmehun]

Robins
Dunnocks
Blue Tits
Great tits
Wood pidgeons
Blackbirds
Gold finches
Occasionally a woodpecker or a siskin.

Sadly the railway people cut down the trees nearby so we get less variety.

There is a pied wagtail that lives near the front garden.

[TheWoollybacksWife]

I have seen in my garden at various times:

Magpies
Pigeons
Wood pigeons
Starlings
Blue tits
Robins
Swallows
A green woodpecker
A Red Kite

We have also had the heron from the nearby lake sit on our roof and scope out the koi carp in the pond next door.

[YouTheCat]

Magpies
Wood pigeons
Collared Doves
Crows
Blackbirds
Blue tits
Great tits
Coal tits
Longtailed tits
A robin
Gold finches
House sparrows
Garden Sparrows
Wrens
Gold Crests (pair)
One Blackcap

That's just off the top of my head.

[NetballHoop]

A robin, lots of blue tits, jays, crows, magpies, blackbirds and pigeons. The occasional woodpecker and once or twice a year we get a pheasant. There are also others that I'm not knowledgeable enough to identify.

[steff13]

We have a pair of mourning doves in our pear tree also, they're so cute cooing to each other.

[yamadori]

In the garden:
blackbird
song thrush
mistle thrush
starling
wood pigeon
collared dove
magpie
jackdaw
crow
rook
house sparrow
dunnock
wren
goldcrest
chaffinch
goldfinch
greenfinch
blue tit
great tit
long tailed tit
robin

Flying overhead:
buzzard
red kite
house martin
swallow
swift
heron
little egret
sparrowhawk
assorted geese

Heard from the garden so somewhere nearby:
green woodpecker
little owl
tawny owl
barn owl
nightingale
cuckoo

We have a small garden, and live on the edge of a small town near woods, farmland and a river.

[QueenOfMyDomain]

A woodpecker
A Sparrowhawk
Goldfinches
Blue tits
Robins
Sparrows
Dunnocks
Blackbirds
Starlings
Pigeons
Magpies

[LucyAutumn]

•Pigeon
•Crow
•Jay
•Blue tit
•Grey tit
•Robin
•Green woodpecker
•Owl (don't know which type, just hear the screeching at night)
•Magpie
•2 ducks (lady and male- there's water for them to swim)
•A pheasant

The woodpecker and the jays are my fave to look at, the pheasant once ran between my dads legs when he was carrying something to the house- it was very funny

[HesterShaw]

Ooh I love birdwatching. Mainly seabirds, as our garden is just a yard and not very good for anything really. However we have a big overgrown buddleia (sp?) hanging over the back wall and I regularly see
blue tits
robins
wrens
great tits
thrushes
blackbirds
collared doves
starlings
sparrows
magpies
We have had the odd bullfinch this winter
Have seen a couple of black redstarts

There will be buzzards overhead, and the usual wailing herring gulls of course. There's a stream over the road and a heron which fishes there.

I'd put a bird table up, but there are loads of cats about and I wouldn't want to encourage them.

[ginghamstarfish]

Pigeons
Sparrows
Robins
Blackbirds
Ducks
Herons
Pheasants
Bullfinches
Bluetits

[Whitney168]

All of Outing's list, bar the Gulls thankfully.

Not too much of the Jackdaws either - at one point last year I had to take all my feeders down for a while to try and break their habit, as I was getting LOADS (highest count 14 at one time, very sinister!) and they were cleaning me out. Don't often see them though, fingers crossed.

We also have:

Coal Tits to join the Blues and Greats
Goldfinches - these go through phases, don't see them for ages then see them a lot for a while
Chaffinches
LS Woodpeckers (and occasionally a Green too)
A very regular Nuthatch (or Nuthatches, the are in and out to feeders a lot from the bottom of the garden and only see one at a time)
Red Kites overhead every day, although never down in the garden
Ring-Necked Parakeets round and about in the trees and overhead, although they don't use the feeders very often. They do like it when the quince fruits though!

Sunflower hearts seem the most consistently eaten food, but they love Flutter Butter too, and have also had success with red suet in logs or pellets, am sure the colour attracts them.

This is a handy identifier to bookmark if you are getting hooked: www.garden-birds.co.uk/birdgallery.htm

[Hygge]

We have a pair of nesting robins, back for their second year.

We also get blackbirds, starlings, goldfinches (it took a year of having nyjer seed out to get them), house and tree sparrows, blue tits, a couple of magpies, bramblings, a really fat pigeon, a very determined jackdaw, and some birds I have no idea what they are. Occasionally we get waxwings but never on the feeder.

We once had a greenfinch but he's never been back.

[Checklist]

Regularly:
Crows
Rooks
Magpies
Jackdaws
Blackbirds
Song Thrush
Dunnocks
Robins
Sparrows
Starlings
Green finches
Goldfinches
Bull finches
Blue tits
Great tits
Coal tits
Redpolls
Sparrowhawks
Red kites
Greater spotted woodpeckers
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Stock doves

Occasionally:

Pied wagtails
Green woodpeckers
Kestrels
Peregrines
Fieldfare
Waxwings
Blackcaps
Siskins
Wrens
Ringnecked parakeets
Pheasants
Red legged partridges

[Dangerousmonkey]

Ducks. Once a goose (white).

[MrsMoastyToasty]

We have cats instead.

[Checklist]

I forgot the nuthatch! We do have 2 feeders with sunflower hearts, 2 with peanuts, 2 with birdseed, 1 with fat balls, 1 with suet block, 1 nyjer seeds and ground feeders!

[LadyRoughDiamond]

Funnily enough we put some nuts and fat balls out thus morning as my 3yo loves watching the birds. Generally, we have
Blackbirds
Sparrows
Blue tits
Robins
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Wrens
Woodpecker

Also have a pair of doves that nested above a garden arch last summer and will now forever be called 'the doves from above'. Bloody bastard cat tried to climb up after them and the whole arch lurched to one side. Doves refused to move, stubborn buggers.

Have a few noisy pheasants that find sanctuary from the local shoot, and an owl in the woods behind that cries a soothing hoot when I can't sleep.

[FloControl]

No garden as such but the regulars round here are:

Jackdaws
Black-headed gulls and another gull variety I can't identify
Magpies
Feral pigeons
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Blue tits

I'm sure there must be others but these are the ones I remember just now. There was a lone siskin last week. My sister lives a couple of miles away and she often sees parakeets. They haven't got this far yet.

I like the gentle cooing of the collared doves and the soft warbling of both feral and wood pigeons, even though it can get monotonous !

[Jinglebells99]

Yamadori I live on the edge of a small town near a river too :) I have a field behind my house. We have robins, sparrows, dunock, magpies, woodpigeons, blue tit, long tailed tits, bullfinches, blackbirds, starlings. We have three red kites often circling overhead.