Which is your favourite Garden Bird?

[adamski20]

I like wrens as they are so teeny

[kernowyon]

I may sound like i'm showing off but we have started to get a small group (4-5) of ring necked parakeets visit our peanut feeder, truely amazing birds, such a bright green but when they fly up into the trees opposite they just seem to disappear you wouldn't know they were there apart from the incredible screeching!!!!!.

[Headfry]

Wow kernowyon! they must be lovely to see! not sure about the noise though

[sharonr]

I like Blackbirds as there was a nest in my garden and the chicks made me laugh. They have gone now.
Also I have a family of 5 magpies at the bottom of the garden and I like watching them in the mornings on the lawn before the dogs go out.

[Nicos]

Robin, blackbird and thrush( if only we had some!

If I had one choice it would be the thrush as they are so rare around us these days and robins are such bullies.

[Cloud]

I've got my mate Bob in my garden and he's a Robin.Her indoors thinks I'm mad cos I talk to him!!!

[KayJay]

We have a Flock of 6 or 7 or 8 -we can never count them all - gold finches in the trees at the bottom of the garden. They are amazing to watch they are never still, make you feel giddy just watching them

[lainey lou]

Robins, love em!

[SueA]

I voted for the sparrow because they're making a bit of a comeback round here after almost disappearing. It's too hard to just pick one though as they're all fantastic in their own way, I love flocks of long-tail tits, bossy bluetits, friendly blackbirds, cute robins & wrens etc. etc.!

[zazen999]

My garden backs onto the canal and I have to say the sweetest bird there is the little moorhen family. You can hear them coming for miles...so loud. Then when they go past they look like it is SO much effort - their little heads pulling themselves forward. Last year they had a chick which was SO CUTE - only just visible by the naked eye as it was so tiny.

Ducks are also cute, but swans are EVIL...

[Hilary B]

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!

Only one I am not quite so fond of from that list is the robin, mainly because they are aggressive, and no-one ever remembers what bullies they are!
I would add swallows and housemartins, and barn owls.
I see no-one likes magpies much, they outbully everything. Jays are spectacular.

[HappyMouffe]

Like Comfreyfan, we have bullfinches visiting sometimes - wonderfully exotic looking, and well worth risking the odd nibble on the apple and plum blossom.
We got a photo of the male visiting the bird table, in the rain

[valmarg]

Couldn't you have a box 'all of these, and more besides'.

[nick the grief]

Goldfinches, Coal Tit and Long tail tits are always a welcome sight in my Garden but my favourite has to be the 20+siskins I had last year for such a small bird the drowned out the school at the bottom of the garden

[HayleyB]

Swallows

They nest every year in the barns and stables and they dive bomb the dogs and cat. They make me laugh as the dogs leap into the air trying to catch them but they are far too fast and boy do they swoop close past me while doing it - I often worry that they'll misjudge and slam into me while aiming at the dogs but they never do.