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.

We have robins, sparrows, long tailed tits, blue tits, occasional great tit, blackbirds, pigeons, swallows, goldthrush, coal tit. Also some more I can't identify.

There's a snowy owl that lives down the lane and sometimes flies alongside cars late at night. Also have geese opposite, swans, the odd duck, pheasants, buzzards, herons, the extremely rare kite. A woodpecker lives in a tree nearby but have only heard and not seen it.

Non birds we have hedgehogs, field mice, lots of newts, frogs and toads. Also a fox with three cubs in the neighbouring field, and I saw a stoat the other day! And badgers.

Seagulls...we live right by the sea and there are not many trees/shrubbery in our part of the village!

The usual.

Blackbirds, robins, blue tits, some sparrow and dunnock, the occasional goldfinch and thrush.

Have a lot fun these days watching a blackbird come and have a bath.

Regularly, a few sparrows, loads of woodpigeons, collared doves, magpies, starlings, bluetits and great tits, robins, wrens, goldfinches, blackbirds, nuthatches
Occasionally, long tailed tits, greater spotted woodpecker, sparrowhawk. Next door neighbour has had ring necked parrakeets but they've yet to visit us.

We live next to a wooded area and are very lucky to get lots of lovely birds. We often get woodpeckers on the large old trees and we’ve been listening to a cuckoo for the last couple of weeks! Watched a family of blue tits fledge earlier this week

Forgot the fat pigeons.

Home made squirrel baffle!
3 fizzy pop bottles with the bottoms cut off duct taped to the pole. They are the 17p lemonade ones from aldi so very flimsy and no chance of the little furry bastards gripping on.

I'm unashamedly an admirer of birds. Luckily enough to have a front garden that opens onto a wide space and a small back garden that has many plants. I feed in both gardens. This gives a variety of birds I see (not daily I might add!!) and that of those i can recognise:

Wren (disappeared for a while but has returned!!)
Blue tits
Great tits
Coal tit (but not for ages - over a year)
Robin (❤)
House sparrows (loads)
Tree sparrow (far fewer than house sparrows)
Dunnocks (many)
Starlings (loads)
Chiffchaffs (not too often)
Blackcap (occasional and winter only)
Blackbirds (frequently)
Redwing (occasional)
Songthrushs (occasional)
Fieldfare (occasional)
Mistle thrush (occasional)
Chiffinch (infrequently)
Goldfinch (on mass once a year)
Greenfinch (infrequently)
Bullfinch (infrequently)
Jay (infrequent)
Magpie (many)
Wood pigeon (many)
Collared dove (frequent but fewer than wood pigeons)
Turtle dove (infrequently)

Front-garden exclusives (and possible location identifying):
Pied wagtails
Swallows
Black-headed gulls
Herring gulls
Common gulls
Ravens
Carrion crows
Hooded crows
Rooks
Jackdaws
Grey heron (occasionally)
Mallard (once a year - not sure why!)

If I ever had an owl in my garden I'd think I had died and gone to heaven!!!

Wildlife wise it's foxes and more; no squirrels at all!!! Plus cats and escaped or roaming dogs.

Nothing as my garden is tiny.

They do sod off to the local hospice though as they have bird feeders outside every room.

Sparrows, blackbirds, jays, crows, wood pigeons, magpies, robins, bluetits and the occasional sparrow hawk.

Sparrows
Starlings
Blackbirds
Tits
Robins
Pigeons
Wood Pigeons
Jays
Crows
Collared Doves
These green parakeet things. Very noisy.
Squirrels
See bats flying around occasionally

And magpies

Robin
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Siskin
Dunnock
Blue tit
Coal tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Tree sparrow
Jay
Jackdaw
Song thrush
Blackbird
Starling
Wood pigeon
Sparrow hawk
Magpie
Yellowhammer
Wren
Tree creeper
Buzzards circle above
Gulls around too

Love living in the country!

Ooh Bullfinch too

We used to get:

Finches - I’m not very good at identity them but at least 3 different types
Great and blue tits
Robins
Sparrows
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Blackbirds
Wagtails
Woodpeckers (2 different types)
And Philip the pheasant who lived in the back garden last year. He appeared briefly this spring to show us his new lady friend Phyllis and left again - I hope he just moved out of his bachelor pad and hasn’t become pheasant pie!

Unfortunately we don’t get many birds any more - the rats moved in and were eating the food so we had to stop feeding them.

Back garden
Goldfinches (loads every day)
Robins
Collared doves
Wood pigeons
Sparrows
Great spotted woodpeckers
Blue tits
Great tits

Front garden
Wood pigeons
Seagulls
Magpies
Blackbirds
Crows
and once a dead mallard! It collided with our garage roof for some reason. We heard a thump and went outside where there was a group of boys looking at the dead mallard under the hedge and they told us what had happened.

No doubt there are others which I won't remember until I've posted this.

We have a Variety of the birds listed that come to feed here,I love watching them .
Last year we had yellow wag tails quite regularly which are lovely to watch ,not seen them this year yet.

A tiny little firecrest landed on our wall a few weeks ago ,absolutely beautiful but gone by the time I tried to snap a pic

Bluetits and coal tits. They shout at the cats.

Starlings who mount noisy raids every afternoon during fledgling season.

Blackbirds during the winter.

Pied wagtails occasionally.

A magpie who shouts at the cats.

The cats can't get to any of the birds as we have cat fencing.

We have most of the usual, but this last few days a Daddy sparrow has been bringing his fledglings down to our fatball feeder and duly feeding them, it's so adorable to watch.
Sadly haven't seen the Jay who used to often pay us a visit for a while, such a stunning bird.

Just as well the Jay wasn’t there when the fledglings were, they are predators.

I love this thread - you lucky people having all those birds! I'm just about to move to a new build house, so just wondering if you have any tips on how to encourage birds into the brand new, completely empty small garden? I'm going to plant trees and put feeders out and I have a bird bath, but any other ideas would be wonderful.

I live in the countryside:

Tits: Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Great Tits, Long-tailed tits
Finches: Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Chaffinches, Bullfinches, Siskins
Sparrows
Dunnocks
Nuthatch
Blackbirds
Woodpigeons
Collared Doves
Starlings
Robins
Song Thrushes
Great Spotted Woodpeckers
Pheasants
Mallards
Sparrowhawk

Plus: squirrels, foxes and hedgehogs

@Trippedupagain if you do all that they will come fatballs and mealworms are definitely the food of choice in my garden, they go for those before seed.

Long tailed tits
Blue tits
Great tits
Chaffinches
Sparrows
Blackbirds
Thrush
Common woodpecker
Robin
Wrens
Don't like but get.
Pigeon
Starlings
Crows
Ravens

@Cockspadget thank you! I know it will take a while but its interesting you say about the different food, I'll take note.