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?

Now they're sitting a few steps apart and looking in different directions. No interaction at all. Perhaps they've had their first row.

I saw a kestral through the patio door in my mum's garden once, only a few feet away from me.

Pigeons, magpies, coal tits. For ages it was just magpies but things seem to have improved (slightly).

I'm in pretty central London

Excitingly, this year we have a pair of long-tailed tits!

Also,

sparrows,
blue tits (not that common)
great tits
coal tits
goldfinches (love them)
wood pigeons - clumsy feckers
blackbirds
magpies
occasional robin
occasional wren
occasional starling

I love watching them. It brings me a lot of joy. The most popular feed overall is fat nuggets - the pink berry ones

I have a Duck sitting on 7 eggs in a shrub on the patio. Fingers crossed a cat doesn't scare it off.

Oh yes, I forgot starlings. How could I forget them. The buggers devour a suet cake in seconds!

We had a pair of bluetits nesting in a box I put up last year, but sadly, I found six tiny dead chicks in it when I cleared it in the autumn. I don't know what happened, or if there were any survivors. Nature is tough.

@nannamia I'd love to see a galah, kookaburrah, honeyeater etc in my garden.

It's so interesting to hear what people from other countries get in their gardens.

A couple of years ago I travelled up to the Isle of Mull in May and we had 12 cuckoos in the grounds of the cottage and I loved them. The locals were like meh it's a cuckoo but living in the middle of England I rarely one.

The long tailed tits are just lovely aren’t they...like quick little lollipops fluttering around. I’d never seen them, bullfinches or goldfinches before we put sunflower hearts up. Gorgeous.

Chinese (golden) pheasant

"I’d never seen them, bullfinches or goldfinches before we put sunflower hearts up"

Taking notes!

@ineedwine99 you are lucky having a golden pheasant in your garden. I've only ever seen one by pure luck when it walked across the road in front of me in Norfolk. Never ever caught sight of it again despite going back loads of times.

@thewooster they are very beautiful, took me a while to find out what he was.

Why is this in AIBU OP?

Well I've been out walking all day today so haven't been around to see anything in the garden but while out I did see a beautiful little great tit and also some lapwings which I had to Google because I wasn't sure what they were at first. Apparently they have had a rapid decline in numbers are rated as red on the conservation status so I guess I was lucky to see them.

Loving the Chinese pheasant, he's very handsome!

Not many here apart from magpies, crows, gulls and pigeons. I do occasionally have a visit from a grey wagtail. My parents live in the country and have all kinds of beautiful visitors. Goldfinches, bluetits, long tailed tits, robins, pheasants and a kestrel. They also have various owls and bats.

@thewooster Here's a kookaburra from my garden. He and his friends wake us up at dawn every morning - they're incredibly noisy.

My favourites are the magpies. They have the most beautiful song and they take turns sitting on the end of my spade whenever I dig so they can get to the worms and bugs.

@nannamia awww that's fab and you are so lucky. I love the kookaburra call but can imagine how noisy they are first thing in the morning. Whenever I watch Aussie programmes ie The Block, House Rules, Wanted Down Under I can hear lots of bird noise in the background and it sounds like parakeets - loads of noisy birds, much louder than UK bird noise.

Do Aussies put out bird food, hangers etc as they never seem to show gardens with bird tables or boxes although I realise I only watch a few programmes and Australia is a big place!

@thewooster Yep, the cockatoos and twenty-eights could wake the dead. They're a bugger for eating the fruit on trees as well - you have to net everything.

We've got a bird table on the edge of the verandah for the magpies but, no, they're not that common here. We've also got boxes in the trees for possums to live in, otherwise they try to get into the roof which is a nightmare.

@nannamia they sound really noisy through the tv screen! But no one seems to bat an eyelid to the racket so I presumed it must be common.

Possums must be like our squirrels. If you get any more photos of birds, possums in your garden please share, I'd love to see them.

Magpies
Butcherbirds
Yellow-tailed black cockatoos
Sulfur-crested cockatoos
Galahs
Little corella
Long-beaked corella
Rosellas
Superb blue fairy-wrens
Satin bowerbirds
King parrots
Straw-necked ibis
Kookaburras

I love birds, when I moved abroad I had to learn about a whole new bird population and it's been really interesting.

We get a lot of humming birds now, or the flower kissers as we call them. There's a lot of different finches, some very tropically coloured like Saffron finches. I would love to see a blue finch, which is a rare treat as they are in rapid decline . Lots of larks with yellow and red patches on them, like the meadow lark. Also lots of south American blackbirds known as caciques. We get large green parakeets, mostly because they love to eat our fruit. We also have a farm that's full of larger birds, lots of owls, falcons and water birds. I'm sure I've seen something like an American Road runner too.

Here's some pics of a parakeet, a saffron finch and a wattled Jacana.

Excellent pics @LinoleumBlownapart

These are two yellow-tailed black cockatoos at my bird feeder. They are huge birds - 70 cm long, very loud, but also very beautiful. They come and stare in my window most mornings to tell me they would like some seed. (You’ll need to click on the image to see them.)