Which is your favourite Garden Bird?

[Finedon.Dandy]

Which bird cheers you up the most?

[Hev]

They are always bright and cheerful and very interested in what your doing in the garden

[Comfreyfan]

This year it has to be a pair of Bullfinches. The male is such a vivid pink, at first sight I thought it was some escaped tropical bird. They take it in turns to land on the feeders while the other one keeps watch. But they're seen so rarely now that they've made us feel very special, so for that they get my vote this year!

[Finedon.Dandy]

This year it has to be a pair of Bullfinches. The male is such a vivid pink, at first sight I thought it was some escaped tropical bird. They take it in turns to land on the feeders while the other one keeps watch. But they're seen so rarely now that they've made us feel very special, so for that they get my vote this year!

Oh lucky lucky you. Have you thought of contacting the RSPB to see if there is anything you can do to ensure their survival, help them breed?

[Headfry]

Have to say I have different birds for different things!

Long tailed tits...... just perfect any time
Robin - that dreamy autumn twittering--doing it now, seems early this year
Thrush - beautiful evening song
Pheasant- that cranky autumn daytime call
Skylark- summers on its way call
switfs- that high pitched twittering on a hot hot summers day
OWLS- fantastic sound at night when all is still and oh so dark!
Wren- can you believe all that noise from one so small
pewits, curlews - on a bleak foggy winters day.....haunting- heavenly
woodpeckers- they sound like they are laughing, hard not to smile

All birds are great!

[Finedon.Dandy]

switfs- that high pitched twittering on a hot hot summers day

bit early to be on the brew aint it?!!!

[HeyWayne]

Rachel de Thame

[Headfry]

Oh HW...... trust you!

[gojiberry]

Has to be the robin for me, although I haven't seen much of them since the babies left the nest. Mind you the young sparrows have been very entertaining for the last few weeks waiting to have a go for nuts at the feeders.

Ian

[Pumpkin Becki]

Oh Headfry! You and me both - I love Long Tailed Tits! They are top of my list. I get so excited when our little flock decend on our garden.

My OH never saw a bird in the garden til I moved in and started feeding them, now our blackbird Tallulah deposits her newly fledged babies all over the garden on a regular basis (she's very prolific), Fred the robin gets very excited when he sees the mealworm bag coming and Jenny the Wrenny is just the cutest (and noisiest) thing ever!

[jacob marley]

My favorite is the Dunnock a small drab bird with the song of a Angel and a ground feeder helps clear up after the messy feeders .
I also have a Robin that comes in the kitchen every morning to scrounge a bit of grated cheese .
But all birds are great all worth feeding jacob marley

[Maf]

I love wagtails.. something to do with those wagging tails ?

My local garden center has a tame (ish) robin that hangs out in the aquatics department. He has very few friends as the staff are w*nk*rs and the prices are daft !

[Marthaclematis]

Fave bird

Mine is actually robin but Mr S loves a Jay.

[Birdie Wife]

Mine is a song thrush, known as a mavis in scotland, such a gorgeous song.

[burnie]

I too have seasonal favourites,being coastal and near to a huge tidal basin(Montrose)we do get unusual "flyusoverus" rather than landers.Now I'm waiting for the Swifts to leave and the first wild geese and swans to arrive.Buzzards are a popular visitor at the moment as they scare the rabbits away.