What birds do you get in your garden?

[Kernobhead]

Watching the birds have breakfast in the sunshine.

We get

Sparrows, about 20 of them, they take it in turns whilst lining up on the fence. Often have a dip in the pond whilst waiting

Pigeons, or the cleaning team as we call them, they eat what’s fallen on the floor, wood pigeons mostly, plus one lovely brown one.

Robins, 2, visit twice a day

Blue tits, again 2, think they have a nest in the tree

Starlings, scare the rest off, but don’t visit much

Magpie, a bit of a bully, chases the rest off

Fox, only seen at night, scavenges the dropped fat balls

Next doors cat, pain in the arse, chase off regularly.

Pretty much the same as you.

Sparrows
Pigeons - bastard, plum-tree-leaf-shredding bastards
Blue Tits - making good use of the nesting box this year
Dunnocks
Magpies
Robins
Coal Tits
Blackbirds
Tawny Owl

And not birds, but still flying things: bats!!!!! Love them.

Oh, and starlings

Blackbirds, sparrows, starlings,wood pigeons, great tits, blue tits, robins, finches. And a squirrel. Always buying bird food!

What kind of food do you put out to get such a variety?!
I get
Pigeons
Magpies
tits
blackbirds
Recently a robin
Squirrels
I do like watching them and magpies are my favourite

After watching Springwatch I've realised I need to plant more insect attracting plants.

Jealous of the tawny owl, not seen one of them in my urban London garden!

Never heard of a dunnock, am off to google..

As above, but also goldfinches, very occasionally a jay.

No foxes but occasional hedgehog.

Also flying over regularly are buzzards, heron, seagulls and occasional red kite.

I have swifts nest under the eaves every year. I could spend all day watching them screeching about. Glorious!

Oh, forgot about the squirrels, they clear out a feeder in no time!

We have a regular amazon delivery of bird food, get through 1 fat block, 3 fat balls and most of 3 seed feeders a day. Greedy sods.

Love watching them though, they no longer fly off when the dog is in the garden, and will still come and feed if I’m close by pottering.

We have:

Gold finch
Great tits
Bull finch
Robins
Blue tits
Sparrows
Starlings
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Blackbirds

We once had a really rare yellow tailed something and had lots of bird watchers pointing their cameras into our back garden!

I love jays, my fave bird, not seen one in my garden yet.

Never seen a hedgehog yet either, I live in hope.

Great tits
Blue tits
Wood Pigeons
Collared doves
Wrens
Dunnocks
Sparrows
Starlings
Magpies
Crows
Blackbirds
Chaffinch
Tong tailed tits
And Ive had a spotted woodpecker a few times (not seen it for a while)
And a family of Pheasants who come and ground feed from my hangers.

I forgot Robins and greenfinch.

Amongst the house sparrows, woodpigeons, robins, blackbirds, occasional starlings, seagulls and ubiquitous magpies, we have a crow that likes to bury food and then digs it up later. We get oystercatchers flying over and we had a sparrow hawk sitting on the fence one day. We live in a bog standard new build suburban estate.

On and I had a pheasant walking past the front door the other week

We have a lot of Buzzards above us but never had one in the garden, I haven't seen a sparrowhawk since I moved here but had a few at my last house, they are so quick to swoop down for their prey, not nice but amazing to watch.

Seagulls. Nothing but massive fuck-off seagulls.

(Fourth floor flat in a coastal city)

Usually just sparrows, wood pigeons, collared doves, blackbirds, starlings etc, but a few years ago I was quietly weeding when the blackbird alarm calls kicked off and I turned round in time to see a sparrowhawk flying off with a blackbird in its talons.

And another time I came out of the back door to find an enormous black-backed gull stone dead in a flowerbed.

Lots of goldfinches (my favourite), they love sunflower hearts. Tits, especially on those half coconut fat things.
Starlings go mad for dried mealworms
Wood pigeons and collared doves like suet pellets and sunflower hearts on the ground, they fight with magpies and blackbirds for them.
We also get the occasional robin, sparrow and jay.

Best thing since putting dried mealworms on the ground is a nightly hedgehog.

Am not v good at bird recognition.

But currently we have:

Swifts nesting in the garage
Starlings nesting in the eaves
Next door has a blue tit nest
A pheasant who likes to patrol round the lawn

Always have pigeons, thrushes, sparrows, robins, blackbirds, sparrows, wagtails, collared doves, goldfinches, great tits, blue tits and coal tits.

Can hear barn owls and tawny owls. Lots of kestrels nearby plus buzzards and red kites in the nearby fields. There are coots, moorhens in a neighbours pond + woodpeckers.

Oh and we used to have jackdaws in the chimney but now have a birdguard - they still live nearby. As do a load of rooks.

In the winter we get waxwings on our apple tree.

So we probably have more birds that I don't know how to identify - have never tried that hard.

Not a bird but my neighbour feeds hedgehogs and has acquired 2 stray cats in the process

Pigeons, I often feed the sparrows too, gives me an enormous sense of well-being.

Sorry.

Goldfinches and blue tits, multiple robins, bats, plus the usual crows, seagulls, magpies and lots of parakeets, which are extremely noisy. The birds use the conifers as a waiting area to take their turn on the waterfall into the pond.

There are some very small brown very quick things, maybe wrens or treecreepers. The heron is ever optimistic, but the pond is netted so he has no chance.

We have:

Wrens
Robins
Goldfinches
Chaffinches
Sparrows
Blue tits
Pigeons
Ring necked doves
Starlings
Blackbirds
Thrushes

Currently have wrens nesting in the garden, along with robins, sparrows and blackbirds a bit earlier

We get:

Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Jackdaws
Magpies
Blackbirds
Starlings
Sparrows
Blue tits
Great tits
Dunnocks
Robins
Gold finches
The odd wren
A flock of long tailed tits visits occasionally
Once we saw a goldcrest
We used to have a resident thrush who would leave smashed snail shells all over the rockery, but I haven't seen one for several years now.

There's a sparrowhawk lives nearby and files at high speed through the garden sometimes, and overhead we get a lot of buzzards and red kites. Every now and then a heron or egret.

I buy the rspb favourites bird food and I get a lot more visitors since I changed from the wilkos one I was buying - birds are obviously fussy. We get:
Robins
Dunnocks
Sparrows
Pigeons
Gold finches
Blue Tits
Great Tits
Black Birds
I live in a city, so don’t get anything more exotic apart from the occasional fox.

Noisy bloody jackdaws nesting in the eaves.