How many birds in your garden today?

[jacob marley]

Wellie a friend of mine breeds her own mealworms and the robins will take of your hand eventually the first time one fed of my hand you feel very humble but nice....jacob

[nick the grief]

...So, like a pratt (again) I went out into our Potager Vegetable Garden at the crack of Sparrow-Fart, in the barest of night-clothes and slippers...

Note to self, Must hide in the bushes in Forest of dean and sell foto's to News of the World

[Two_Sheds]

Wellie a friend of mine breeds her own mealworms

I thought I might try that, if I can convince myself the beetles won't escape from the Quality Street tin and run all round my shed

The RSPB: Advice: Breed your own mealworms

[allotmentlady]

Eric and Ernie are back (the two tame robins) they love mealies and worms, chopped up. We also have halftail, our blackbird, she is very scatty and has raised 3 lots of young this year, then we have grace, our duck, who we have raised since she was 3 weeks old, her mum was killed,she is mardy.

[cupcake]

Multiple sparrows, loads of blue tits and blackbirds, a few starlings, 2 ring collared doves, 2 flying rats, a tree full of crows, very vocal owls at 5 o clock this morning! And Percy the pheasant!

[rustylady]

Lots of sparrows, bluetits, two sets of nesting blackbirds, and two goldfinches on the Niger feeder that I bought from my birthday money. Well worth it.

[Madasafish]

6 black birds
2 pheasnats
8 quails
2 turkets
lots of wood pigeons
Lots of sparrows.
Long tailed tits.
3 robins
2 wrens.
One owl.
2 crows..

And that's when I was looking...

[Nik]

All the usual suspects - starlings, house sparrows, robins, chaffinches, blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, blackbirds, wood pigeons, collared doves.
Also the occaisional long tailed tit, regular visits from two rather brazen pied wagtails and the other day two red legged partridges that gave me a bit of a fright!
Not a single one of them on the bird table I spent two weeks building mind. Bloomin' ingrates.

[Buleste]

Blackbirds, sparrows (hedge and house), starlings, blue tits, coal tits, greenfinches and siskins. Occasional visits from wag tails, a thrush and if the small birds are particularly numerous a sparrow hawk will swoop in to clear them off.

[sewer rat]

Not exactly my garden, but as I was working in the forest today, here's what I saw; Osprey (flew overhead with fish grasped in talons), Red Kite, Buzzard(s), Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Heron, Woodcock, Pheasant, Grey Partridge, Blackbird, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Starlings, Sparrows (House and Tree), Wood Pigeons, Chaffinch, Goldfinch.

[T8Ter]

Not today (or maybe but I'm in work) but over the Easter hols.
Pair blackbirds
Pair chaffinches
greenfinches
Collar doves
W pigeon
Magpie
Starling
Sparrows (house/tree?)
Robins
Blue tits
Coal Tits
Great Tits
Wren
and on Sunday
a very fast kestrel diving down on the 5 doves on the ground chasing them about 18" off ground, flying straight towards the house (none caught but oh for my camera to be set up then)

[Rixy]

Blackbird nesting in the disused shed.
Blue tits.
Great tits.
Coal tits.
Robin.
Pigeons.
Wood pigeons.
Ducks.
Magpies.
Crows.
Jackdaws.
Wrens.
SparrowHawk.
Seagull.
Thrush.
Sparrow.
Wagtail.
Starling.

Think that covers all the birds seen down at the allotment today, could be a couple missing though.

[spiderpig]

robin,sparrow,blackbird and two enormous wood pigeons who appear to enjoy cr%pping on my greenhouse!

[sewer rat]

At the castle gardens on Friday;
Black headed Gull
Herring Gull
Cormorant
Oystercatcher
Mallard
Curlew
Pied Wagtail
Robin
Blackbird
Chaffinch
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Greenfinch

At Estate Garden today

Red Kite
Buzzard
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Crow
Rook
Jackdaw
Sparrowhawk
Robin
Chaffinch
Sparrow (House)
Sparrow (Tree)

[catbasket]

The usual suspects for us are -

Blue tits
Great tits
Long-tailed tits
House sparrows
Starlings
Robins
Collared doves
Nuthatches

We also get occasional visits from a marsh (or willow) tit, a couple of goldfinches, and a magpie who clears up the mess from the ground. We added a thistle seed feeder yesterday to try to encourage more finches.

Opposite the house is a hedgerow then fields, so we are lucky enough to see a barn owl hunting occasionally. There's also a bird of prey which regularly hunts over the fields, possibly a kite but haven't yet been able to get a clear enough view.