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?

@CalmBeforeTheWave aw that sounds lovely. I think I'd leave the garden as it is, like you say it's so much nicer to see all the wildlife enjoying your garden.

We have 2 fat wood pigeons and 3 magpies who engage in turf warfare until they join forces to torment the living fuck out of the dog.

Ignoring them most of the time are a collection of tits, sparrows, thrush and a robin.

Central belt of Scotland here.
Blue tit. (Currently checking out the birdboxes)
Great tit
Sparrow. (Used to be common until the magpies moved in)
Wren. (So tiny)
Hedge accentor (easily confused with sparrow)
Robin (follows me around)
Collared dove. (So graceful)
Wood pigeon. (Enormously heavy surprised they can fly)
Pigeon. (Rats with wings)
Blackbird. (Rarely heard these days)
Mistle thrush. (Occasionally)
Starling (especially in the autumn)
Magpie
Crow (hate the last two murderous thieving pests)

Well the cat eats crows, gulls, pigeons, blue tits so id assume they do. Theres a pair of owls driving me nuts, but the cats not allowed out at night.

There's a wee grouse and pheasant that like to have a wee wander here too

Thanks everyone for sharing so far. It's lovely reading all the posts and picturing the beautiful birds you're all describing.

So far I have seen:

Blue tits
Goldfinch
Starling
Blackbirds
Magpies
A wren
House sparrows
Robins
Long tailed tits

Also once saw a sparrow hawk in next doors garden, that was a surprise!

Keep sharing

Blue tits
Long tail tits- my favourites!
Great tits
Coal tits
Finches
Blackbirds
Robins
Pigeons
Magpies

I put up a bird feeder 2 days ago but I'm not seeing many birds so far. I've had a wren and couple of long-tailed tits today, that's all. Next door has loads of feeders and they get lots of birds. Do birds need time to locate feeders?

I've put it close to the window, near a bamboo for shelter, it's also near a fence. I'm wondering if it's too enclosed?

I get goldfinches, starlings, thrushes, all varieties of tits in the garden - maybe they're not hungry?

I love my garden birds! Although our feeders are temporarily down after a greedy rat 🐀 was taking their food. Our lovely NDNs noticed it too and called pest control last week, I’m going to ask them tomorrow when I can put the feeders back up.

We have, in order of common-ness

Blackbirds
Starlings
Woodpigeons x 3
Great tits
Blue tits
Dunnocks
Collared doves
Robins
Long tailed tits (my favourites)
Bullfinches (close second favourite)
Goldfinches
The odd magpie
Wrens, which nest in NDNs nest box

I get my bird food etc in Wilkos, they adore sunflower hearts and the suet coconuts. 🐦

Brighton resident here. Seagulls uber alles in our garden. Really scary looking buggers too, one took on our cat and won; poetic justice I guess.

Blue tits
Long tailed tits
Yellow tits
Great tits
Coal tits
Goldfinches
Chaffinches
Wrens
Robins
Starlings
Sparrows
Blackbirds
Collared doves
Wood pigeons
Crows.

Crows and magpies having gang fights in my garden.

Oh and something that sounds like it’s escaped from hell and is calling for beeizebub the second the sun shows up every morning.

The Goldfinches regard the sunflower seeds as their exclusive property.

Today:

Lots of long tailed tits (apparently rapping on the windows but probably collecting cobwebs for nest building)
Goldfinches
A robin
Two pheasants
Blackbirds
Song thrush
A barn owl 😬

Regularly see blue tits, jays, collared doves, red kites, kestrels, buzzards, dunnocks and (in the field behind the house) sky larks. I hear - but rarely see - tawny owls and once saw a peregrine.

Love my birds!

The beastly Heron. Glorious in sight. Horrid in feeding habits

the little brown birds
a bird with blue on its chest
a robin
two wood pigeon my cat obsessed over cause she can't get to them lol

I'm in rural Fenland. I have a large garden which is half left to trees, bushes and whatever plus a 100 year old boundary hedge.

I have two pairs of collared doves.
2 pairs of fighting robins.
3 pairs of bluetits.
2 pairs of reed warblers( fen ready ditches at the end of the garden)
4 dunnocks
A bastard ( surely that must be the collective noun?) of starlings
A ton of sparrows
A passing pheasant
A Bewick swan pair who pop in migratorarily.
A pair of ducks who spend their days in the ditch.
A blizzard pair.
A red kite in the area.
Two barn owls at night from over in the fen.
Herons trying my pond.
And lots of siskins and a whole ton more when i walk the dog. We are right on the ouse washes and regularly see rare migratory visitors. Its not Wi nter here till the swans come in. Sometimes i drive to work and think its snowed over the way and it's just swans in a field. The noise they make! I love it. All our pylons and wire are now lit to prevent swan death.

@TwitterQueen1 it was about a week before any came to mine, i don't know if they just didn't realise it was there or whether they were waiting to see if it was safe but once they started coming they've been returning everyday so fingers crossed it will be the same for you.

Kookaburras
Rosellas
Magpies
Ravens
Ringneck parrots (we call them twenty-eights because that's the call they make)
Pink and grey galahs
Black cockatoos
Boobook owls
Pigeons
Honeyeaters
Next door's chooks - they're always escaping

Just a sad pile of feathers...... we have a big cat

There's no such bird as a seagull. Gulls are most likely to be herring, black headed or lesser black backed. Also given the rarity and illusiveness of lesser spotted woodpeckers my guess would be most people are seeing greater spots.

I am just about to move to an inner city house with a tiny patio garden. Is there any hope of attracting birds?

What would be the best feeder to try?

Town pigeons
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Sparrows
Blackbirds
Robins
Magpies
Blue tits
Coal tits
Great tits
Goldfinches
(Occasionally) Waxwings

That's it for our garden. We also get crows, jackdaws and pied wagtails in the neighbourhood, but I've never seen them in the garden. We're in a NE Glasgow suburb.

One of the white pheasants that visits, get 3 of these and a chinese pheasant

One of the wrens and last years hedgehog

I'm currently watching a pair of collared doves go through their courtship rituals. Lots of bowing, turning and flying away ! I wonder if they are a new pair or long-term ? They do mate for life so this could be the dove equivalent of renewing wedding vows .