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 are in Ipswich btw, with a long garden with mature trees at the end of it. Have heard woodpeckers too, but never seen them.

We get wren, sparrows , crows , ravens , kestrels , sparrow hawks , buzzards above us , starlings , blue tits , various finches , and in our fields we have little owls in the hedges , tawny owls in our willows , and this year , which I’m really pleased about , 12 years after putting up an owl box in our field shelter , we now have a breeding pair of barn owls, with 6 live chicks , which we discovered by accident , so it’s now out of bounds until the autumn .

Suburban garden in the South.
Goldfinches, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, robins, wood pigeons, starlings, blackbirds, magpies.
Parakeets are increasingly a common sight.
Great spotted woodpeckers, a heron and a jay are very occasional visitors
Some winters we have siskins, and once on a very snowy day we had a beautiful brambling in amongst the goldfinches
Jackdaws nest in a chimney pot just outside my bedroom window and wake me up at the crack of dawn.
But haven't seen a thrush for years, and haven't seen a bullfinch in decades
We feed them sunflower seeds, niger seeds and fat balls, with dried meal worms, raisins and suet on the coldest days

Blue tits, great tits, long tail tits.. every year we get nesting blue tits in our box by our patio - they've just fledged

Sparrows

Magpies

Pigeons

Very rarely do we get something a bit different, like a woodpecker, Jay etc

I get
sparrows
Grackles
Gold finches
Orioles
Cardinals
Nut hatches
Wood peckers
American Robbins
Blackbirds
Waxwings
Chickadees
Starlings
Blue birds
Catbirds
Hummingbirds
and the occasional turkey
When the chipmunk population gets high we see a lot of redtailed hawks and turkey vultures. My friend on the other side of town, on a farm, gets bald eagles.

Dead ones.

I have a cat.

Our regular visitors at the moment are
Blackbird
Song thrush
Starling
Wren
House sparrow
Dunnock
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Blue tit
Long tailed tit
Great tit
Great spotted woodpecker
Cuckoo
Sparrowhawk
Swift (strictly speaking over the garden)
Jackdaw
Rook
Robin
Chaffinch
Love spending time watching them.

We live rurally next to farmland and a churchyard and get a huge range of birds, I have lots of bird feeders and tables to encourage them too. We get wagtails, dunnocks, all the types of tits and finches, thrushes, blackbirds, robins, as well as lots of sparrows, starlings, magpies, pigeons, many doves and all the crow family.

Just today the four robin fledglings left their nest in our old garage.
We have a green woodpecker who often visits, he’s fab.

We have an old farmhouse, so various nests under eaves, we can hear the chicks through the ceiling in some rooms.

We have swallows return every year to our garden, one pair nests on the back of our house.

We have bats, one flew in and got stuck in our bedroom a couple of weeks ago, took a while to get him out. I love bats.

We have ducks and pheasants often wander in, a couple of deer too this year.

Lots of owls very nearby, they roost on the house some nights and call. I love to hear them. We see lots of birds of prey near us too.

We sometimes see hedgehogs in the garden, I’d love to see more though we do get lots of squirrels, and they’re all named 😄

footphobic
Your place sounds heavenly

I don’t know if anyone will come back to this thread, but I wanted to update to say ‘our’ swallows have arrived overnight, we currently have a flock swooping around the house and garden, collecting moss on the roof. Hoping a pair finds the nest under my bedroom eaves again.

It just amazes me every year, that they journey back here from south Africa to our little part of Suffolk.

We get sparrows, pigeons, a jackdaw, greenfinches (only just started visiting, I suspect due to leaving the thistle type plants to grow), a couple of great tits or blue tits, blackbirds, a few robins, and we once had a wren.

I managed to get a (not brilliant I know, photography is not my strong point 😊) photo!