Garden birds today according to my Merlin app

[Delphigirl]

The Birds in my garden are all out and enjoying the breezy sunshine this morning. This is what I’ve caught in 16 minutes… would love to see others’ lists!
pS the chiff chaff is particularly noisy

I’ve just added goldfinch and oystercatcher to that tally. And there are red kites circling overhead and crying as usual but for some reason Merlin has never identified them.

And a coal tit has arrived.
I think I’m talking to myself but that’s fine, it’s a lovely morning for it 🤣

Oystercatcher? Do you live by the sea?

I can’t get Merlin to identify birds of prey. They was something whistling the other day and it just ignored it.

I've got it to acknowledge the flock of red kites above me before- but you couldn't hear anything over them so perhaps that helped.

I've only got a magpie atm. Just one boring mapgie.

You’ve inspired me! I’m going to go and sit in the garden now and see what I can pick up!

I’m always amazed at how loud wrens are.

Oh I love the Merlin app. I’ve just put the kettle on so I’ll bring my cuppa outside and see what we’ve got. The birds are very chatty out there today.

Also a great tit, but can’t fit them all on the screen shot

Nice! Chiffchaffs happy with you too I see.
I’ve added these (garden warbler, chaffich, firecrest, buzzard and collared dove. The buzzard is becoming more frequent - appeared for the first time last year and now more often heard which is nice.

Ooh ooh ooh - grey wagtail has joined in! That’s a first in this garden!

Love your long tailed tit @MagpiePi which reminds me we used to get them frequently on our bird feeder during Covid but I haven’t seen or heard any in our garden for a year or so…

I am not at all sure about our oystercatcher. We are about as far from the sea as it is possible to be in the uk!

I haven't made a note of what we get in the garden, but I know we have rock pigeons, collared doves, wood pigeons, bullfinches, chaffinches, greenfinches, chif chaffs, robins, blackbirds, wrens, blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits, sparrows, magpies, fieldfares, goldcrests, nightingales (not yet this year), lesser spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches..... I'm sure there are many more! Plus buzzards in the sky above us and seagulls, mostly herring gulls I think, and I have heard at least 2 different kinds of owl. We are on the edge of the city and we are lucky enough to have mature trees in front of us, a steep uncultivated bit of field next to us, and a small patch of wildlife reserve behind us. We also get roe deer, foxes and badgers coming through our small garden. Lucky we like wildlife!

Have you @WindmillOfBones ? We have zillions always screeching but never once has it identified one!

There’s a flock of about 5 or 6 that come to my feeder. They are the cutest, fluffiest looking little birds. And I love the way they chatter.

Sounds idyllic! Yes we have woodpeckers little owls and tawny owls but I am v jealous of your nightingale 💕

Lots and lots of birdsong as I worked in the garden yesterday.

Chiff chaffs, finches, blackbird, songthrush, jays, wood pigeons, our resident collared doves, crows and magpies and one I couldn’t identify, a long, single note song, repeatedly.

It was lovely. Spring has sprung.

Sounds idyllic!

I haven't seen many birds this morning but I've certainly heard them: jackdaw, magpie, great tit, blackbird, feral pigeon, wood pigeon.

No collared doves this week, surprisingly. The cooing is usually non-stop.

So uplifting isn’t it. You need the Merlin app to identify that bird!

Filled up a second page!

We used to have a nightingale that sang in a huge mature ash tree next to the house. It was wonderful. Sadly we lost the tree to ash die back, and thus the nightingale too.

Re the ostercatcher:

It's not infallible. Last year it identified our whingeing spaniel puppy as a "long tailed tit".

To be fair, it had a point...

@VenusClapTrap oooh I’ve never had or seen a grey wagtail around us. Beautiful!
yes @GuppytheCat it occasionally tells us our dogs are Egyptian geese

My Merlin is useless with our red kites too. They're coo-ing away literally above the house and it's registering on the noise scale thingy. But Merlin has no idea they're birds.
I wonder if it's not expecting them in our area as they're still spreading across the country. Although they've been here for almost ten years so you'd think it would recognise them by now.

I'm not turning mine on yet because I'm listening to The Archers and it would get confused.

Always think long tailed tits are like teenagers - hang around in groups and chatter non-stop.