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.

Sparrows
Starlings
Magpies
Jackdaws
Carrion crows
Goldfinches
Blue tits
Great tits
Coal tits
Pigeons
Wrens
Robins
Song thrushes
Greater spotted woodpecker
Pied wagtails
Lots of buzzards and kestrels and the occasional barn owl overhead

Non-bird wildlife: bats, hedgehogs, toads, foxes, moles

We decided against getting a bird box as next doors cat would be all over it. As it is we had to hang the feeders on a long pole and concrete the pole in to a large planter in the middle of the garden to keep the birds as safe as possible.

Ive ordered some of those coconut halves, will see what birds they attract!

We don't have a garden, but we back onto a canal and fields on the other side. We see a lot of:

Ducks
Swans
Geese
Moor hens
Mandarin ducks (we think they're escapees from a local bird centre)
Herons
Kingfishers
Blue tits
Robins
Starlings
Wood pigeons
Finches
Sparrows
Great tits
Magpies
Blackbirds
Woodpeckers
Crows
Pheasants

A hawk sometimes
And just the once - a tawny owl

We also get:
Squirrels
Foxes
The occasional deer

DS1 has a bird book, and loves spotting them from his window

Am very jealous, I would love to live near a river or canal, sounds idilic!

Hope you are all completing the SpringWatch online surveys on gardens and what’s in them. They need this information. We have pretty much all the usual suspects:
Sparrows
Starlings
Robin
Blue tit
Great tit
Wood pigeons
Blackbird
Magpies
Crows
Seagulls
Occasional sparrowhawk

Oh, and hedgehogs are regular visitors and we have a frog called Philippe in the pond

I feel like we should get hedgehogs, the garden backs on to allotments and we have seen them there so they are definitely about the area. There’s gaps in the fence so they could get in.

Could they be sensing our dog and staying away?

We get
Blackbirds
Crows
Wood Pigeons
Magpies
Pheasants
Bluetits
Coaltits
Bullfinches
Chaffinches
Robins
Great tits
Collared doves
Goldcrests
Wrens
Dunnocks
Jays
A Woodpecker (the black and red one)
Sparrows
Brown owls and a barn owl

• a few other small ones I can't identify

We've also had a sparrow hawk & a heron as occasional visitor

Other regular wildlife includes a fox family, a family of rabbits, a deer, squirrels, hedgehogs, frogs and beets and we have bats

We have 1.5acres that backs onto fields we don't feed the birds/wildlife specifically but there are plenty of plants in the garden that provide fruit, berries, seeds and insects. I was woken by the birds in the wee hours this morning they are quite noisy at the moment.

Newts not beets

We used to get hedgehogs all the time, twenty years ago.

All gone now.

Great tits
Blue tits
Marsh tits
Bull-finches
Black birds
Chaffinches
Nuthatches
Black redstarts
Mistletoe thrushes
Green woodpeckers
Great spotted woodpeckers (currently eating me out of house and home)
Greenfinches
Coucous (sp)
Black and red kites overhead
Buzzards nesting in the trees bordering our garden
Tawny and barn owls roosting in the trees
Hoopooes
Golden Orioles
Jays (eating all my cherries and figs)
Magpies (ditto)
Occasional peregrine falcons overhead
Swifts, swallows, martins overhead
Several other species I can hear but not identify.
Costing me a fortune in fat balls atm!

Several varieties of bats

Deer, badgers, foxes, boar, squirrels (red)

Forgot wrens, dunnocks, sparrows (rare here)

Lizards, praying mantises, large green grasshoppers, crickets

We are very rural and have a river, so we get a huge variety of birds.

But no sparrows.

Lots of blackbirds
Some sparrows
Wood pigeons
Blue tits when the midges are around
Magpies
A single robin
Bloody enormous crows. Loads of them, that swoop at my cats and take whole plums off the tree when they’ve ripened.

Blackbirds, wood pigeons, blue tits, great tits, bullfinch, greenfinch, sparrows, a noisy gaggle of starlings with fledglings, robins. Odd sighting of a wren. The odd gull.
Once saw a kestrel, very rarely a sparrowhawk, hear a barn owl some nights. Sometimes see a heron perched on the roof, they have ariel battles with crows, I think they raid crow's nest.

I have a crow who is my current favourite, it waits for me to put the bird food out in the mornings. I swear it looks in the kitchen window from it's tree and recognises me.

A couple of magpies, noisy and they scold/swoop at the cat. Think they are nesting in some trees nearby. Loud and annoying but they really look after their chick.
I also get frogs, hedgehogs, bats and a (rather cocky), fox.

We get sparrows, blackbirds, starlings, blue tits ( they are nesting in our birdbox right now ) robins, great tits, pigeons and finches

Ones that shit on my new trampoline 😒😒

Magpies, jackdaws, rooks and pigeons (3 different types, wood pigeons, grey city pigeons and light grey pretty ones) are my main types.

I've recently started getting starlings including one baby starling, robins and sparrows.

I have blackbirds that come in the front garden but never in the back garden.

This is lovely! I'm not very good at bird ID but trying to learn.. Love seeing the wren perched on the coalshed eave absolutely singing its heart out, totally belying its size! beautiful! And the polar opposite - two Ravens cawwing overhead, quite eery but magical... Listening to a cuckoo earlier in the wood surrounding our garden ❤️

Great thread

Blackbirds
Robins
Swallows (in buildings)
Pheasants (large, rural garden)

I've seen:

Foxes
Hedgehog
Hares
Rabbits

i get sparrows, blue tits, a wren, blackbirds, one hawk, one robin, others i dont know but have 2 collared doves around all the time. one of the doves sits on the back of the other and massages his feet into her back. she then makes a huge noise and shrugs him off. is this them mating? excuse typing i am on a yogi as my DH is watching the match on my ipad.

Pigeons , robins , sparrows and tits - with the felines on the prowl most birds probably wisely stay away

Overwhelmingly jackdaws and magpies.

Also often pigeons, blue tits, great tits, robin, crows, blackbirds. Occasional wren or pied wagtail.

There is a woodpecker who lives in nearby farmland who sometimes puts in an appearance. And a couple of times a heron who ate all the neighbour's fish, then was never seen again.

We get

Starlings
Blackbirds
Great tits
Blue tits
Robins
Sparrows
Wrens
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Magpies
Rooks (or could be crows, not sure)
Jays

We also have herring gulls flying overhead (but rarely land) and swifts overhead at this time of year.

I have seen goldfinches a couple of times, and sometimes chaffinches, but they are not regular. And once a sparrowhawk landed on the fence.