Which birds have been in your garden so far today?

[lipstickwoman]

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

A sodding sparrow hawk, so not much else! A wood pigeon stopped by, but everyone else is absent. Would usually see blackbirds, dunnocks, blue tits and great tits, and if I'm lucky a wren. Oh and magpies.

Jackdaws and starlings are occasional visitors.

There's a woodpecker. I can hear him but haven't seen him . But quite unusual in zone 2 London.

Just my usual 3 crows who wake me to feed them at 6am!
Can also hear a woodpecker but not seen it yet

Everyone is very busy here today, the wood pigeons appear to be nesting in the apple tree in the back field, the tiny wren is flitting around, the blue tits are nesting in next doors bird box, the blackbirds took offence when we let the cat out for a bit of fresh air and we saw the buzzards catching some thermals overhead. There was also a chaffinch in the apple trees and a couple of hedge sparrows. The jackdaws are very unhappy that we have put cowls on our chimneys and have migrated to next doors chimney instead. No sign of the robin today or the long tailed tits which visit the apple trees in a flock.

Lovely thread.

Goldfinches
Chaffinches
House Sparrows
Starlings
Mallards
Pheasants
Peacock
Robins
Blackbirds
Blue Tits
Great Tits
Herring Gulls
Crows
Choughs
Dunnock

Also get Long Tailed Tits and Marsh Harriers (above) but not seen any today.

@FlowerOfTheValley ooo a peacock?!and mallards? I'm imagining a stately home... with a lake ...

Between the chough and the marsh harrier, it’s almost possible to locate FlowersOfTheValley’s home. I occasionally see choughs too, but never actually in my garden, only flying over it.

I’m imagining a house in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Wales. May be not that specific after all 😄

@lipstickwoman @PureGrit definitely not a stately home but we do have a pond hence the ducks. There are lots of peacocks living close by and the males come into the garden most days from now until Autumn.

Choughs only go on our roof. Not in Wales but down south. Surrounded by fields on two sides so lovely and peaceful just hearing the birds.

Absolutely love the little family of long tail tits we have ❤️

Wagtails .. so many...and wonderfully so many robin pairs

A pair of robins - the bigger of the two is quite friendly and will sit next to me and take seed off the ground if I stay still. He(?) appears every time I open the door.

Lots of wood pigeons - there are at least two nesting in trees on our boundary.

3 or 4 goldfinches which were dancing about earlier.

A spotted woodpecker.

Blue tits and coal tits (one pair nesting in a box on the gable of my shed).

Blackbirds.

Dunnocks.

Starlings which come for a good wash in the pond in the afternoon, which is quite fun to watch.

Lots and lots of magpies.

This is a list from this spring because there's a storm today;
My pet robin who sings to me and I reply! We're in mid west Fr. in the country.
Blackbirds,
Dunnocks ,wooodpigeons
Nesting blue tits, coal tits
I'm very excited because we've heard and seen blackcaps for the first time in 17 years! Eating the ivy berries \flowers off the trees.
In the surrounding country we see little egrets in large flocks. Quite recently a buzzard flew in and sat at the top of one of our pine trees and was frightened off by 2 attacking magpies!
Oh and we've had pheasants eating at the bird table and the place I put fresh leftover food.

I just saw my first turkey vulture, a pair of them landed on the shed roof and I had to google them, they looked so odd. We do have normal wild turkeys strutting around too, but I dont really think of them as birds as such because I so rarely see them flying.

Are you in Europe Sea ? That is impressive! We have had Hen Harriers but not lately sadly, I think that possibly the farmers put down poison for them. They have massive wingspans.

Oh our cuckoo is back now, they live in our nearest forest\wood. They generally arrive on the end day of March. I like the sound but feel sorry for the little birds that get victimised!

Does anyone have any recent knowledge about Egrets? My bird books don't even suggest that the small ones we have even exist . They seem to live around our localish fields, not esp. near water (they're about 24cms long and 9cm high. ), Not on the cattle's backs' which my book mentions.

I think I've seen a flock by Dorman's station ,in Sth Eng. there's a lake there and they're often flying about there in the summer. But I've never seen them before in England The twitchers would be interested !

Blue tits, long tail tits, sparrows and I think a great tit. I can hear the woodpeckers in the woods but can't see them. There's been about 5 red kits flying high above. My neighbour 2 doors down has big Avery in his garden with some bright yellow/green cockatiel type parakeet things. One of which I think escaped a few days ago but is still flying around the area. It was in our back yard yesterday morning picking up the seeds from the ground. I'm hoping the nuthatch will come back soon. They're my favourite.

@ppeatfruit the RSPB website is a good source of -relatively up to date- information

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/little-egret/

Looks like little egrets are increasingly being seen inland. I live near a big colony in Wales and occasionally see them in the fields, especially if it’s a high tide.

@ppeatfruit little egrets have become far more commonly seen in the UK in recent years, particularly around the coastline, thanks to warming climate pushing them out of their historical range. They will come inland if there are lakes or streams they can utilise, so I don't think what you're seeing is particularly unusual, sorry! :)
They may compete to a degree with herons but generally in the sorts of locations they frequent, food shouldn't be an issue.

We’ve now got two Little Egrets visiting the park near me, and you can’t get much more inland than me!

Love their yellow slippers!

Haven't seen it but I just heard a cuckoo!

Geese... so many Canada geese ... all acting like they are in a soap opera of partner swapping and too much testosterone...bloody noisy here in the countryside !

Blue tits, robin, blackbird, jackdaw, magpie, wood pigeon, wren.

I've got an app called Merlin on my phone, I just left outside for five minutes and it matched a tawny owl! Quite exciting.

Magpie
Collared dove
Robin

We get parakeets everyday as well as ducks etc we are in the uk 🇬🇧