Which birds visit your garden?

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I've recently found a new love of birds. I've bought some feeders and have really enjoyed seeing the different types of birds coming to eat. So aibu to ask you to tell me what birds you've seen visiting your garden and what you like about them so I can look out for them in mine?

Magpies and crows mainly with the odd seagull thrown in. We did get starlings for a while but the crows appear to have chased them away. The seagulls visit sporadically and always make sure to shit all over the clothesline when they do visit.

Wild parrots.

Should have added that we sometimes get bats visiting in the summer too which is pretty cool to see.

We have
Blackbirds
Redwing
Thrush
Goldfinches
Greenfinches
Siskins
Robins
Sparrows
Dunnocks
Wrens
Blue tit
Long tailed tits
Great tits (had babies in our nest box last year)
Coal tit
Egret
Pigeon
Woodpecker
Collared dove
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Starlings
Pied wagtail
Saw a kingfisher a few times but he's not been back recently. We live by a stream and have lots of trees.

Oh yes, Long Tailed Tits too, again not regulars but see them a lot for a while and a fair few of them together. So cute (although my heart belongs to the Blues and the Robins).

We have a pair of mating robins
Blue tits xloads
Dunnocks xloads
A pair of mating blackbirds
Coal tits
Great tits
Wood pigeons
We had a nest of wrens last year but they don't seem to have come back this year.
We sometimes get a gold crest bathing in our pond
I have seen a thrush a couple times
I once saw a nut hatch
Magpies when the food first goes out

Blue tits
Great tits
Long tailed tits
Blackbirds
Robins
Hedge sparrows
House sparrows
Great spotted woodpecker
Nuthatch
Overhead: buzzards, red kites

Cardinals
Woodpeckers
Sparrows
Blackbirds
Thrushes
American robins
Various finches
Blue Jays
Crows
Doves
Occasional hummingbirds
Herons interested in the contents of ndn's pond
Hawks

1 fat pigeon and mr &mrs magpie. And like the feathered Mafioso that they are, no other bird gets a look in. Fat pigeon struts around the garden waiting for his magpie servants to divebomb the feeders and free the goodies from their cages. The recent snow has left evidence of his strutting.

I have grown to accept them even if I may not like them, my dreams of sweet ickle birdies are shattered.

We are in the flight path of migrating Arctic geese, and I expect to hear the high warbling sound of millions of them heading back north any day now.

Pheasant
Partridge
Wood pigeon
Collard dove
Crow
Jackdaw
Magpie
Blackbird
Thrush
Robin
Wren
Chiff chaff
Siskin
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch (masses)
Chaffinch
Fieldfare
Dunnock
Goldcrest
Blue tit
Bearded tit
Long tailed tit
Great tit
Reed bunting
Great spotted woodpecker
Lesser spotted woodpecker
Green woodpecker
Nuthatch
Tree creeper
Redstart
Pied wagtail
Yellow wagtail
Swallow
Swifts
Buzzard
Kestrel
Sparrow hawk
Starlings

Once......for completely inexplicable reasons...

A storm petrel

We are lucky to have a large garden which extends into wild meadow. What could have been a beautiful formal garden to envy is, instead, a straggling mix of bushes, flowering weeds, mown areas, with some planting. It has taken five years, but what was once 6-7 main species is now many. Looking out of the window, just six feet away are some 30 or so goldfinches lining up to roost in the bush. In the Beast from the East winds, a gust turned a whole side of the bush around and I saw them all eyes closed, gripping to the twigs with their little feet, shining yellow and red in the quick sunlight.

I planned an amazing garden, but now and especially this winter, the birds, mammals and insects will take priority. We have been overwhelmed with wildlife these last few months and they give more pleasure than a formal garden by some way. Why spend money, when nature does it for free?

Robin, blackbird, blackcap, dunnock, long tail tits, and this year for the first time shed loads of goldfinches

We have fields at the back and a wood 2 minutes away.
We have
Robin
Blackbirds
Dunnocks
Sparrows
Finches
Tits
Wood pigeons
We have a wildlife pond, a bird bath, table and hanging feeders, a mixed hedge and a suet log holder.

Bullfinch
Goldfinch
Long tailed tit
Great tit
Blue tit
Coal tit
Robin
Dove
Bloody pigeons!!

and squirrels that think they’re birds..

Definitely recommend sunflower hearts, they all crowd round those and we regularly refill four feeders of them.

Oh and chaffinch.

Wren
Crow
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Collard dove
Sparrow
Thrush
Jay
Fieldfare
Woodpeck (greater spotted and green)
Robin
Dunnock
Pied wagtail
Treecreeper
Nuthatch
Sparrow hawk
Pigeon
Starling
Black bird
Pheasants
Siskin
Moorehen
Partridge

And bullfinch
I love watching and feeding the birds

Blue tits
Great tits
Goldfinches
Starlings
House sparrows
Robins
Blackbirds
Reed buntings
Magpies
Pigeons
Long tailed tits
For the last two years we have had woodpecker for a few days in may/June last year we saw it feeding its baby!
Once had a bullfinch
Get the odd heron and kestrel flying overhead

My interest in birds was v sudden. It was like one day when I was 33 I noticed them when I never had before!

Moorhens, among others :)

Forgot to mention pied wagtail- they are my ds's favourite

Goldfinches, bluetits, blackbirds, bloody heron, but the pond is properly netted.

I get: blackbirds, robin, sparrows, wood pigeons, blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, wren, crows and magpies. Also once saw a kestrel and a blur of something that could have been a sparrowhawk, something occasionally hunts the wood pigeons. Not cats, I'm sure its another bird.
I live about 3 miles from a canal and river so occasionally get a heron perched on the roof. It once seemed to have a bit of an aerial battle with some crows.
Also heard a tawny owl a couple of times.
I like to feed them, they seem to enjoy mealworms (dried), and suet pellets. Blackbird likes grapes.

Really fat pidgeons
Sparrows
Robins
Jays
Magpies
Crows
Blackbirds
Paraqueets
Woodpeckers
Blue tits
Yellow tits - not sure about the name
Finches
Seagulls
Occasional rogue duck escpaed from the park at the end of my road

Two morbidly obese wood pigeons..... and that’s it! I gave up putting food out in the end.