How many birds in your garden today?

[SueA]

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)

What with that lot & the dolphins are you trying to make us all jealous Rat? It's working!

[SueA]

Pair of fat collared doves 'courting'
Pair of dunnocks.
Pair of goldfinches.
Pair of bluetits.
Pair of blackbirds.
Noticing a pattern here!
Oh & several house sparrows & starlings.

[Madasafish]

2 mistle thrushes: VERY aggressive and noisy. Attacked a crow in the oak in the field: for hours accompanied by scolding and swearing - well it sounded like it.

That's two days in a row. Never seen one mistle thrush here.. let alone two...

[Nicos]

Apparently we had a nightingale this evening!!!!

I've never heard one before- and missed it...but the peeps we were with said thy have one regularly in their garden.

...how cool is that!!!!

[catbasket]

Had our first greenfinch today. Not on the feeders but on a cherry tree a few feet away.

Next up we had two robins land on the feeding station together - and they didn't squabble or argue at all

The collared doves seem to have taken a dislike to the magpie and are trying to chase it away every time it comes near, and a starling had a bad start to the day as he was mobbed and chased away by 5 or 6 sparrows.

Thought we'd spotted a 'new' bird sitting in a tree yesterday - black and white head, black and white body, black tail. Binoculars! Aha - white whiskers and four legs. It's our cat Algy, about 20ft up the tree

[emily84]

When we moved into our house a few months ago there was nothing for the birds so even though next doors garden was full of them, we had none, not even a passing visitor!

Since putting feeders out and the start of spring, I'm glad to say this is changing rapidly!

The good old sparrows are a regular feature, now getting so brave they'll even stay there when the dog goes outside.

2 regular (big & fat) pigeons since my wonderful OH built me a bird table.

A crazy amount of starlings charged in yesterday, scaring everything else away and making a shed load of noise!

The 2 crows that I'd seen checking the feeder out finally came down on Monday which I was v happy about until they ventured onto my veg patch and pulled up an onion! Safe to say I shooed them away and am keeping an eye out for their return!

Saw 1 lonely little robin on the fence this morning

And finally, the coal tits I've been seeing next door for weeks finally ventured onto my feeder but got scarred away by the mob of sparrows that followed!

I hope that once the word spreads that we have some delicious treats on offer, this list will grow rapidly

[wellie]

I am so grateful that this thread has been re-invented, because, having lived here now in our new home for a whole year on 17th April, and having quite SO many wild birds now visiting our Potager, it has become even more of an issue for me now to make sure that they are all fed sufficiently - particularly whilst the adults are foraging for their young babies on an hourly basis. So anything that I can do to help them, is a pleasure. Just by providing the basics of fresh water for them to drink and bathe in, nutfeeders, etc. it does actively bring all birds into your garden, and of course, whilst they are there, they do tend to have a ferret around for grubs etc. to take back to the nest for their babies!...

To be perfectly honest, the birds in my new neck of the woods don't seem to mind what I wear in my own back yard neither?! Free as a bird....

[Garden_girlie21]

I am so jealous! I had a measly crow and a robin today.

Albeit a cheeky robin.

The little red breasted whatsit was trying to steal my worms from my freshly dug patches. Grrr.

Jen x

[sewer rat]

I can now add Yellowhammer to my list, and as for the Ospreys, the female from last year has returned to the nest that I pass every day, and this year she has a mate with her - happy days

[danmon_81]

Yellopw hammers are stunnings little birds!


I have a robin in the garden...he's called Steve.

[jackie j]

On the 2nd lottie I put up a birdfeeder and the other day as well as the robin's there were tits and sparrow's.

[Capsid]

It may be worth having a closer look at the sparrows in your garden. We have one with a black head and bib which turns out to be a reed bunting. These are becoming more common in gardens as their habitat declines.

On Tuesday, I put up a tit box and today (Thursday) it was visited by a blue tit bearing huge mouthfuls of moss that it had difficulty getting in. Cool!

We get all the usual suspects, but I have noticed a decline in greenfinches. I haven't seen one for ages.

[wellie]

I could've kicked myself this morning.... I was eating toast and supping coffee, looking out onto the back garden, and I did NOT have the camera handy. The bird resembled a Bullfinch, but had a white bit leading from the deep red terracotta bit up to the black bit on its' head. Definitely a Finch, in every respect. Promise you it wasn't a Chaffinch.
I'm dead good with my birds. And it's nothing that I've seen before.
My only thoughts: could have been a dead-nifty Bullfinch sport.
What does anyone else think?

[rustylady]

Been away at my daughter's for a week. Got back yesterday late afternoon, and the seed feeders were empty. Mrs Blackbird has two babies in her nest in the passionflower. Refilled the feeders, topped up the birdbath and waiting for some action.

[danmon_81]

I could've kicked myself this morning.... I was eating toast and supping coffee, looking out onto the back garden, and I did NOT have the camera handy. The bird resembled a Bullfinch, but had a white bit leading from the deep red terracotta bit up to the black bit on its' head. Definitely a Finch, in every respect. Promise you it wasn't a Chaffinch.
I'm dead good with my birds. And it's nothing that I've seen before.
My only thoughts: could have been a dead-nifty Bullfinch sport.
What does anyone else think?

Hawfinch?
Redstart?