birds are starting to sing

[mothhawk]

Spring is definitely coming!

As I type I can hear a dunnock singing, and today I have heard blackbird, robin, great-tit, and bluetit song plus the wood pigeons cooing "I love you, I do"

[Nicos]

We've been listening to owls for about a week!...lovely!

[veggiechicken]

The hedges have been alive with little birds, chattering away. Not sure what they are - tits and dunnocks probably. Robin has been with me in the garden again, singing his head off. Blackbirds too and owls at night.

[arpoet]

We have a the most common owl in our garden shed... a teet owl... (say it quick)

[veggiechicken]

We have a the most common owl in our garden shed... a teet owl... (say it quick)

Mine's in the kitchen

[Gema13]

We have so many owls here this year, lovely sitting on an evening listening. My Bird table has been very busy this week, think my home made fat balls are going down a treat.

[mothhawk]

it's very cheering that the birds are singing again, in spite of the torrential rain this morning, and now the temperature is back down to 1C after reaching a torrid 4C just after lunch. It's going to be a frosty one tonight I think.

[WendyC]

The loudest bird in our garden is a wren. He/she gets very vocal as soon as one of our cats appear and I even saw it telling a blackbird off the other day for daring to sit in the same tree.

[dogsbody]

TBH they haven't stopped singing here all year. It is great to go out in the garden and here the many and varied songs going on.

[PyreneesPlot]

Down here, too.
I saw a small orange/yellow butterfly and frogspawn in a puddle on the 1st Jan and bumble bees yesterday.
I have no idea how much of the spawn survives - we see it every year at this time in the ruts at the entrance to a field!

[Nicos]

We had a greenlacewing insect indoors yesterday....no idea what it's going to find to eat, but it's vey early to be seeing them.

At one time I might have squished it, but I'm starting to get chuffed with myself for getting to be able to recognise the ' good insects' around me!

[greenjelly]

On the 27th December I heard the Great Tits calling at the bottom of our garden.

Also we have a 'clattering' of Jackdaws visit our birdtable every day and on of the pairs is showing a lot of interest in an old Magpie nest in our neighbours tree.

Yesterday I put some sunflower hearts in one of the feeders and a flock of Goldfinches soon arrived.

[Two_Sheds]

Not singing, but the blackbirds and tits have returned to my back garden, where I slavishly provide them with fat balls and soaked sultanas

[Philthy]

We used to get lots of greenfinches and goldfinches. These last few years they've all but disappeared. The feeders haven't changed - niger and a sunflower seed blend. A mystery

I like jackdaws. They're a handsome, majestic bird. And starlings are another favourite, with their iridescent, glossy plumage.

[mothhawk]

One of the endearing features of jackdaws for me is the way they stick in their pairs. You can have twenty sitting on a telephone line, and they will all be sitting in pairs, startle them into the air, and they wheel around, but still each pair stays close. To see that loyalty, I can put up with the jackdaw version of birdsong