How many birds in your garden today?

[wellie]

Wellie likes your style Jacob Marley............. and it probably marinades the flesh nicely before it gets to the pot too, don't it?!

[nick the grief]

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.

wos it like this one Myrmidon?

Greater spotted Woodpecker :: GSW.jpg :: Fotopic.Net

[lynda66]

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

we had one of those last year, beautiful.

[nick the grief]

the usual couple of dunnocks, House Sparrows, mixed tit flock ( no long tails yet) Goldfinch, Greenfinch and Starlings but it's still early yet for my garden.

[Comfreyfan]

Just came back from Cornwall - sitting fishing on Bodmin Moor we were kept regular company by a mob of Long Tail Tits, a couple of Goldcrest, a Kingfisher a very friendly Wren along with the usual Robins, Chaffinch etc. Not too many fish but the birds were wonderful!

[Two_Sheds]

yay!
we just got a wren in our garden

[Nicos]

6 chickens!!!..they all flew over the fence!

[burnie]

Huge flocks of Waxwings about,seems it's a good year for them

[rustylady]

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?!

Noticed the same Wellie. Blackbirds have nearly stripped the pyracantha and finished the elderberries a couple of weeks ago. Last year they hardly touched them. They used to say if there were lots of berries about we were in for a hard winter - who knows?

[seasprout]

The best ones of note for me today where a pair of Goldcrests chatting away and a big Wood pecker. I had only put the nuts up about 10 mins earlier.

Then two grey squirrels arrived and shushed it away.

[smallblueplanet]

Then two grey squirrels arrived and shushed it away.

Sprinkle chilli powder on your nuts! That'll keep the squirrels off 'em!

Saw the first 'flock' of turdus today, thrushes, redwings, etc in the hedge at the bottom of the garden. Oh and there was a small flock of starlings doing the whizzy flying around thing!

[Mcbee]

Saw a Jay first thing, and whilst i was digging over the veg bed the robin kept on flying down and eating the grubs (i tried to hide the worms from him). Also had the blackbirds, sparrows, and blue tits

[HayleyB]

We've a couple of hundred birds in our hedges of all sorts, and constantly squabbling making a right racket every day. Pheasants generally take refuge here when they're shooting out the back but stay away rest of the time because of the dogs.

Have an owl somewhere not sure where yet, but know he/she's around can't tell you what sort cause I have only heard him/her.

[jacob marley]

If you are looking for Owl's in the daytime always look on the side of trees away from the wind close to the trunk of the tree that is where they usually are thats how i spot them jacob marley

[johnty greentoes]

Totally unexpected visitor to our school wildlife garden today. Took 30 kids in only to startle a woodcock sat in a pile of leaves. A beautiful moment.