How many birds in your garden today?

[rustylady]

I'm sure we had a thread on here, but can't find it. Anyway, today in my garden were:
1. Female blackbird eating fallen apples
2. Goldfinch in the apple tree
3. Bluetits hopping around in the fruit trees
4. Starlings looking for whatever they could find
5. Sparrows making a lot of noise
6. A magpie making a lot of noise from the tree across the road
7. Male blackbird eating what's left of the elderberries and leaving the residue on my front path.
8. A few seagulls flying over

[aud]

well this morning we had.......

2 black birds.
12 long tailed tits
14 great tits
10 blue tits
2 coal tits
2 willow tits
2 crows
2 spotted woodpecker
1 green woodpecker
2 nuthatch
1 tree creeper
62 pheasants
1 moorhen
1 kingfisher
i kestrel (bad boy)
12 cananda geese on our pond
3 robins
3 song thrush
a handful of sparrows
5 chaffinch
1 heron
8 blooming magpies

we also get tawney, barn and little owl, bats and buzzards.

oh and 7 fallow deer, badgers and foxy loxy, but we have never ever had hedgehogs down here.

I do the BTO bird watch.

[Two_Sheds]

Aud, where do you live, flipping Buck House? Or River Cottage? 62 pheasants and 7 deer!

I may only have 2 blackbirds, but they have trained me to open the back door and throw raisins to them when they sit on the back fence and say tut-tut-tut to me.

My male blackbird is going demented, trying to chase off a flock of starlings and a half dozen sparrows from "his" lawn.


* oh, I had a cockatiel up on the roof this afternoon ... silly beggar had escaped from somebody's house and didn't have the sense to come down and be caught.

[aud]

ok i may have cheated with the pheasants as they belong to the game keeper. lol

No i am lucky enough to have a few acres of land, the deer come and drink from the pond. Or as my mate is scotland says a small puddle. lol


i am hoping some of the pheasnts may wander into my freezer.

[rustylady]

Today, blackbirds eating the pyracantha berries and fallen apples (they've stripped the elderberries). Sparrows, bluetits, and the robin has just returned.

[wellie]

rustylady,
Trousers and I are really enjoying our local bird population too.
I'm not around all the time, but when I am, there's definitely:
Spotty Woodpecker
Nuthatch
House Sparrows
Pair of Robins
Dunnocks
HUGE amounts of: Coal, Blue & Great Tits
and thankfully, a whole family of Long Tailed Tits
a couple of pairs of Blackbirds
some Goldfinches at the moment
but no Siskins as yet (!) who normally eat me out of home every Winter!

I feel hugely honoured, even if it does cost me an arm and a leg to keep them fed all year long (!) The pleasure they bring is worth every single penny.

[rustylady]

Today, blackbird is still about eating pyracantha berries and fallen apples. Starlings have found the fatballs that I hung in the apple tree, and the sparrows are eating the peanuts that I put in the feeder for the bluetits. Robin has been flitting about too.

[nick the grief]

I don't know, it was dark when I left for work this morning and dark when I got back Must set up a webcam

[Headfry]

Yesterday- other than the normal suspects-
Goldcrests

last Friday-
A red kite flew over!!!!! Quite low 2nd time seen in the past 2 months.

I have kept a list of birds seen for the past 7 years and have seen a huge drop over past 3 years.... even though I can see full clean bird feeders in nearly all the gardens!!!!

[johnty greentoes]

Spent 15 mins in my school garden at 8am before the mayhem began and saw pretty muh bugger all until a Whooper swan flew over low enough for me to hear its pinions squeaking.

[wellie]

Mr. Blackbird has a whopping Berry Appetite on him right now, and he must know something we don't, clearly.

But even 'Spotty and the Blue, Coal and Great Tits, House Sparrows, Dunnocks and Robins are very much more active than normal.

Are we in for a hard Winter? or do I just have greedy birds in my garden?!

[aud]

had a very bad sparow hawk in my garden this morning.

[johnty greentoes]

Sparrowhawks? All part of life's rich .....................

[jacob marley]

ok i may have cheated with the pheasants as they belong to the game keeper. lol

No i am lucky enough to have a few acres of land, the deer come and drink from the pond. Or as my mate is scotland says a small puddle. lol


i am hoping some of the pheasnts may wander into my freezer.

If you start feeding the pheasant's with corn feed them i bit closer to the house each day and one day soak the corn in whiskey or brandy when they have eaten it all up they will be there for the picking well pickled this is suposed to work jacob marley

[Myrmidon]

I went for a walk today - trying to scout out an allotment, sadly unsuccessful - but saw a woodpecker perched on a branch a good 40 feet up!

I'm not much of an ornithologist, so couldn't discern the species, but it really made my day.