Twitchers! - anyone want to talk birds?

[Ingles2]

I'm hoping I'm not alone here with my obsession and constant watching of garden birds..
I got a bird box with a camera for Xmas (best present ever) and I'm watching constantly.. I'm lucky in that I have a large Rural garden and have plenty of visitors..
Any else checking their bird table or box constantly? what do you see regularly?

Ooh my kind of thread.

Also rural garden. We have regular greater spotted woodpeckers who are very thuggish towards the other birds.

Tons of blue tits, pied wagtails and coal tits.

We get the occasional brambling, wheatear, mistle thrush and meadow pipet who sneak in from nearby fields,

Haven't seen them this year but often in autumn we sometimes get some beautiful bullfinches feeding on the cranesbill seeds.

We are surrounded by farmland and moorland so although we don't tend to see them in the garden we often hear/see curlews, lapwing, oystercatchers, skylarks, long eared owls, tawny owls, buzzards, peregrine, greylag geese and snipe.

Just this very afternoon I spotted a chiffchaff in the garden. I have all the usual ones including probably 30 goldfinches at a time on the feeders.

Op what a great present I didn't even know it was some thing you could buy!!

Bird variety has greatly increased recently.. Beautiful thrush, black bird, Robins, collared doves, blue tit, great tit, black cap.. Woodpecker, wood pigeon and since last year a charm of gold finches

We have pigeons on our riff so the patio is covered in hatched eggshells, they're having a song off with the dunnocks in the camelia. bush

I love the collective noun for a bunch of goldfinches - it's so very right!

yay! I'm not alone! :D :D
so I'm in farmland on the south coast,... we have all the usual suspects, plus nesting buzzards in the field next door, numerous owls, kestrels and sparrowhawks...
Atm I'm particularly loving the long tailed tits but not the pheasants..
so yes, the cam bird box... I have a funny little blue tit roosting in it atm.. it's extremely possessive of it, but isn't nesting yet, so we'll have to see. it spends a lot of time pecking the box :D

@DeepNorthFarmGardening

Ooh my kind of thread.

Also rural garden. We have regular greater spotted woodpeckers who are very thuggish towards the other birds.

Tons of blue tits, pied wagtails and coal tits.

We get the occasional brambling, wheatear, mistle thrush and meadow pipet who sneak in from nearby fields,

Haven't seen them this year but often in autumn we sometimes get some beautiful bullfinches feeding on the cranesbill seeds.

We are surrounded by farmland and moorland so although we don't tend to see them in the garden we often hear/see curlews, lapwing, oystercatchers, skylarks, long eared owls, tawny owls, buzzards, peregrine, greylag geese and snipe.

sounds idyllic! whereabouts are you?

yes a charm of goldfinches is lovely isn't it! also like my volery of long tailed tits and a chime of wrens.

On our garden feeders we get a robin, blue tits, sparrows, chaffinches, pied wagtails and collared doves. Lots of starlings at the moment, but they'll be gone soon. Once summer comes we'll have house martins nesting under the roof.

Overhead there is usually at least one red kite. Lots of Canada Geese at the moment too.

I'm in the centre of a town. I have a rooftop outdoor space. And our regular visitors are blue tits, robins, Mr and Mrs Blackbird, a wren, a pair of pied wagtails, some grey wagtails and some goldfinches which we finally enticed in just this weekend. It was very exciting.
I'm so proud of the variety we regularly attract considering our noisy central location. I expected no more than a couple of woodpigeons.

My kind of thread! Had a blue tit checking out a nesting box earlier, hoping they like the look of it.

Hellooo, welcome so pleased to see other bird lovers.. @JessePinkmanYo sounds like you’ve done brilliantly with your roof garden!

I have a window bird box and the blue tits feed from it, even with the cat sitting there.

We have Robins, blue, great, coal and long-tailed tits. Dunocks, house sparrows, gold finches, black birds, starlings, magpies, crows and pigeons.

Today we had a woodpecker and pied wagtail.

Out the front, we saw red wings. And we hear the buzzards and owls.

DD9 loves it!

The Robins, blue tits and dunocks have been fighting over the same nesting box in our garden. We have 3. They all want the same one.

Not too much in my small suburban garden, but did see a red kite over the local playing field earlier. Never seen one this far into town before

Ooohhh... at last! My people!

I’m in a very urban area but we get a good variety of bird life. Our main visitors are sparrows, starlings, pigeons, blue tits, goldfinches, long tailed tits, great tits, wrens, robins and blackbirds (I avoid hmentioning the r8ng necked parakeets which are a PITA). We get regular sparrowhawks. Occasional green finches and in the cold weather we get red wings and sometimes fieldfares.

We have bluetits, wrens, robins and blackbirds nesting in our various boxes.

We have lots of feeders with different food - I sometimes think we spend more money on bird food than on human food!

I sit for hours just watching them and we love visiting bird reserves when we can as well.

I’m rural too, we’re lucky to have epic birds - buzzards, red kite, kestrels, barn owls😍, tawny owls (I’ve rescued a chick that was later re-released having been reared at a local sanctuary)....but my absolute fave is our mega family of green woodpeckers...the way they hop about the grass and just ignore us is utterly ace. Lovely thread op👍

We have sparrowhawks and kestrels and quite often see the remains of a kill. I saw a sparrowhawk take down a seagull - that was messy!

I also have dunnocks, a wren, robins, greenfinches, blue and great tits, a million sparrows and a couple of blackbirds. Had a woodpecker once but never since.

I’m not a birdwatcher but on my walk every day there is a really loud woodpecker which I always stand and listen to for a bit - and I actually saw it briefly yesterday which was a lovely. I also saw a heron last week next to the river and I often see a jay in the garden but not recently. Last year I was absolutely amazed to see a buzzard sat right there quite low down in the tree on my walk (I thought it was some kind of eagle but had to google it when I got home!) that was so special to see close up - I went quite close and he wasn’t bothered at all.

Best of all though was waking up in the night a couple of years ago to really loud hooting - there was a barn owl sat right outside my bedroom window - I couldn’t believe it! I woke dh up to look but he just grunted and went back to sleep🙄

I love seeing different birds. At the moment there are loads of little ones about that seem to swoop out of bushes and trees in small groups chirruping - are they swallows or swift’s does anyone know? There seems to be loads of them about suddenly!

Hello, twitchers! I've always fed the birds in our garden, but it's only been this year of wfh that I've actually seen properly who comes and takes the food. I've got my desk set up by the patio doors so I spend hours on conference calls watching the bird table DS has also got into it during the last lockdown and has listed the birds we've seen since Christmas. From the top of my head:

Wood pigeons
Blackbirds
Crows
House sparrows
Dunnocks (which I still struggle to differentiate from the sparrows)
Wrens
Blue / great / coal / long tail tits
Robins
Blackcap (a very rare visitor)
Nuthatches (my favourite, and the other day I saw two!)
We sometimes get buzzards wheeling round above, but not seen any in the garden yet

I get so much enjoyment from watching the birds in the garden.

Very envious of those who manage to get them to nest in your boxes. I have about half a dozen boxes and no residents. Some blue tits were beginning to nest in a box but then DP cut the lawn and they didn’t come back

Am visited by blackbirds, robins, blue & great tits and some finches. Starlings at the moment who decimate the feeders but I still love them. A regular barn owl and other birds of pray fairly often too.

We have a robin, blue tits, wrens, dunnocks, finches, 1 I’m not sure what it is yet, starlings, sparrows, and a pair of black birds with an added Romeo trying to muscle in, that’s kept us entertained for weeks

We live in an 8th floor apartment in Canada (west coast). We are allowed only hummingbird feeders and we get two kinds of hummingbirds, the Anna's hummingbird and the Rufous hummingbird. They are amazing to watch and become quite used to us sitting on the balcony.

The Anna's hummingbirds do not all migrate south for the winter and we get them year 'round. They are so tiny and amazing. If it is cold we bring the feeder in at night so it is warm when they feed in the morning. They go into a state of "torpor" at night to save energy and survive the cold.

www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/species-profiles/annas-hummingbird-our-winter-hummingbird/

We also can watch bald eagles from our apartment. Sometimes the crows team up and harass an eagle, all the while making one heck of a racket.

nature-mentor.com/crows-chase-eagles/

Right now the dawn chorus of birds is starting up again, with much birdsong in the morning.

I’ve got all the usual - cheeky blackbirds, tits, collared doves, wood pigeons,etc but I’ve got a nuthatch that is so attached to my summer house he just sits there all day singing. I was looking out the window at him today and he flew to the window as if to say hello (maybe my imagination). Of course we call him Paul (no chance of spray painting him though)

Lovely I really love this. Get so much pleasure from watching ours...

6 mighty territorial robins
Blackbirds
Wrens
Thrushes
Nuthatches (DS says they have ‘go faster’ stripes
Chaffinches
Goldfinches
Greenfinches
Long tailed tits
Great tits
Coal tits
Blue tits
Pied wagtails
Fieldfare
Red wing
Jays
Woodpecker (started at 5am today 🙄)
Magpies
And a buzzard. Amazing to watch.
Does a pheasant count?

I do live in partial woodland though!

No sparrows!