Which birds have been in your garden so far today?

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Urban back garden but we have some trees and shrubs..
Robin
Blackbird
Magpie
Blue tit
Long tailed tit
Goldfinch
Starling
Gull (overhead)

Fruit trees are the way to a bullfinch’s heart @LookMaAStone . I have a cherry plum on the edge of my garden, which was what originally brought them in. For years though that’s where they stayed and would fly off the second they got a whiff of a human.

This year, for some reason, my garden seems to have become a bit of a safe space for them. They’ve started coming to the feeders and I’m allowed to be in the garden at the same time as they are. I can’t get too close, but as long as I keep a respectable distance they’ll let me watch them. They’re gorgeous little birds!

Sh*t, forgot to feed the birds, thanks for the reminder..
Goldfinches, bluetits, great tits, pied wagtails, robins, pigeons, blackbirds.. I had a buzzard take a blackbird in the back garden last month when it was really cold.

Robins
Crow
Pigeons
Jackdaws
Dunnock
Blue tits
Great tit
Coal tit
Long tail tit

Robin, blackbird, chaffinch, goldfinch, blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit, sparrow, crow, wood pigeon, pheasant and parakeet. Possibly a green finch or a siskin but they were frightened off too quickly by the bigger birds to ID.

Still find it extremely weird watching the pheasants hoovering up the food the parakeets are discarding.

I am North East US, so a slightly different list, but I have been working on a bird friendly garden since we moved in 2 years ago, so am v pleased with my fewthered visitors
American bluebird (breeding couple)
Black capped chickadees
Red bellied woodpecker
I have heard the furry woodpecker but havent spotted him yet
Cardinals (breeding couple)
Blue jays but I wish they would bugger off as they are bullies and last year chased away all my little birds
I havent seen my Robins yet and am waiting another couple of weeks before the hummingbird feeders go out
Last year I had goldfinches which I was thrilled about

I use the app Birdsnet which will record birdsong and then give you a guess as to what it is (it uses GPS to tell where in the world you are)

Two adult magpies pulling my coir hanging basket liner to bits about 40 mins ago and trampling on the plants in the basket.

Think they might be more frequent visitors now they've found nest building material readily available.

We have a little gaggle of sparrows nesting in our laurel. They are all very vocal and darting about the garden looking for flies etc. It's been lovely watching them. There were SO many sparrows when I was a kid, numbers have been massively depleted and barely seems to have been noticed.

There's a great spotted woodpecker that visits our garden sometimes. And you can hear them hammering in the woods near our house.

Robin, sparrow, various tits, one jay.

See here for a selection of pigeon nests. I particularly like the egg in the middle of a bed with a token stick beside it.

Can I recommend the BTO Garden Birdwatch for those who enjoy monitoring their birds on a regular basis? This isn’t the much publicised RSPB Garden Birdwatch, it’s the BTO one which allows you to submit records all the year round. You can view your records at any time, and see them summarised in different useful ways, and there’s a quarterly magazine which presents results across the country, and explains them in terms of weather patterns and other things

That Birdwatch looks really good.. think I might join

I washed out all my bird feeders today as the rain had just reduced all their food to a mouldy pulp . Normally have

Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Robin
Blackbird
Sparrow
Wren
Long Tailed Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Dunnock
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Feed them a lot though 😜

Where do you all buy your bird food? We've ordered sunflower seeds in sacks before now, and find The Range quite good.

Crows
blackbirds
sparrows
wood pigeon
heron

thats just what was there when I opened the curtains this morning, haven’t looked outside further today.

We get green and greater spotted woodpeckers quite a bit and the other day a sparrow hawk was having a bath in the puddle on our trampoline for about ten minutes. Was very exciting.

Magpie x 3
robin
blue tits
starling

Pheasant
Partridge x 3
Robins
Sparrows
Dunnocks
Great tits
Blue tits
Long tailed tits
Black cap
Nuthatch (there are two of them, I think they are a pair)
Great spotted woodpecker
Willow or marsh tit, I can't tell the difference
Collared dove
Tree creeper (a pair)

They haven't been in my garden yet - but I can see red kites on the thermals whilst I am sitting on my sofa which is lovely. I am also hoping to see the pair of long tailed tits we had last year. Plus robin, blue tits, starling, magpie (pair), jay, wood pigeon, great tits, a large corvid (not sure which one - crow?).

Ring necked parakeets, noisy little sods,

It is my belated mother-in-laws wedding anniversary and looking out my kitchen window I saw the most cutest Robin happy as Larry. I believe in seeing a Robin being someone that's been close to me saying hello and also Magpies and the song that's sang.

I added a heron flying overhead to my list today, and at the weekend we had a small bird of prey land on the fence. The garden went silent... a really special moment

Jackdaws and their fluffy babies
Thrush
White wild doves
Pigeons
Wagtail
Blue tit
Robin
Heron !

Blue tits
great tits
long tailed tits
sparrows
robins
blackbirds
song thrush
spotted ( I think ) woodpecker
red kites ( overhead , not in the actual garden )

we moved last October , and I will miss our swallows , keeping an eye out for them to return
@Biffatcrafts I'm very jealous , though when we were on holiday in Tenereife in January we saw lots of swallows enjoying the winter sun

West Wales

A crane was sat at the end of our garden in the fence this morning!

Some very pretty mistle thrushes bopping about in a flower border.