What birds do you get in your garden (4 Viewers)

[Granjan]

Hi folks we finally ordered a decent new camera, Sony A6300 digital mirrorless, with a longer lenses and tripod, been pestering husband for quite a while, picking it up tomorrow or Friday, then I can get playing, lots to learn, only had our iPads for the last few years, which are great for simple memories but not great for detail. Really hoping to get to grips with it and get some good photo's, at home, around our house in Northumberland and on our motorhome travels, starry dark skies and Auroras too please

These are the birds we think we recognise, guess with closer images we might have a few more species than we thought.

Home
Regulars : Pheasants , Owls little and Tawny, Lapwings, long tailed tits, blue tits, coal tits, Wrens, Robins, Blackbirds, Greater spotted woodpecker, Pigeons, Sparrows, Crows and Magpies.
Seen occasionally Perigrine, nuthatch, bullfinch, heron.

Up north
Regulars : Pheasants, Wagtails, Blackbirds, crows, seagulls, Geese in the sky, Swans, Tufted Ducks, mallards, sparrowhawk, buzzards, maybe a Merlin.
Seen in the last year a Kingfisher who flew into the window but was ok and a Barn Owl that I spotted for the first time last week, saw it two mornings in the fields beyond, that really pushed me into chelping on about a camera and when David started googling camera models I pushed him home! It helped that he got a nice totally unexpected cheque for a life insurance that expired / matured on his 60th.

We feed the birds lots at home, the pheasants get cheekier, flying at the windows.
Hoping I can join in with some nice pictures.

 

[Ambilkate]

Birds this morning in our garden
Gold finches
Siskins
Chaffinches
Green finches
Linnet's
Sparrows
Dunnock
Robins
Doves
Wood pigeons
Blackbirds
1 Pheasant
Blue tit
Buzzards flying over
Crows and jackdaws flying over

 

[CWH]

Put a feeder out about a week ago. Within the last hour or so:
f blackbird 1
m reed bunting 2 gosh they're handsome birds!
f reed bunting 3
m hedge sparrow 1
m dunnock 1
linnet 3
m chaffinch 2
f chaffinch 3
m greenfinch 2
f greenfinch 1
and a veritable charm of goldfinches

just seen a wren in the stone wall opposite
had a bunch of 3xm and 1xf wheatears over the past week - they're so subtle and elegant

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[CWH]

First redpoll of the season this morning.
And at 7.30 I heard a cuckoo (neighbours heard it last night).

 

[Jenben]

We have
Robins
Blackbirds
Thrush
Reed bunting
Goldfinches
Greenfinches
Blue tits
Pheasant
Woodpecker
Kites and Buzzards overhead
Waiting for the house martins to arrive they nest next to us and we love watching them swooping into their nests

 

[Ambilkate]

Still not heard a cuckoo yet has anyone in the Midlands heard one yet???

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[daveandsan]

Saw a Red Kite while out cycling this afternoon.

 

[Ivory55]

I think the trouble we have round here is the RSPB have booked all the birds for the summer season at their bird reserve and are under contract not to do any private visits to home gardens. Haha

 

[Ivory55]

We have had 3 sparrows visit. We are gradually getting more variety

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[DC4JC]

Green woodpecker in the garden yesterday. Managed to get some snaps, but have to zoom in to see it.

 

[CWH]

siskin today
the neighbours have seen 3
this is the first year they've been seen in this little patch though they're often spotted just over the hill

 

[Nirvanauk]

Currently have a baby pigeon in a privet bush 6 foot from my back door and a blackbird nesting in my open garage 4 foot of the ground so we know next doors cat will have them. Oh, and the swallows have returned to the 5 nests in the open garage so the cars will be covered in crap for the next six months. Oh, the joys of living in the countryside.....

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[CWH]

Swallows
House Martins adding mud to the gable end
Rock doves sheltering under the willows from the scorching hot sun

 

[davanne]

Our baby blue tits are ready to fly...well one followed mum or dad out and came to the feeder near the kitchen window

 

[Reallyretired]

We have nothing but seagulls, pigeons an magpies. Did have a pair of blackbirds but not seen them this year.

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[DavidG58]

We have regularly had gold finches perching in top of a bush by our bedroom, now spotted they have a nest in there

 

[davanne]

Anyone tell me what this bird is please

 

[CWH]

It's a bit fuzzy and no 50p for size ( ) but could it be a juvenile starling?

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[CWH]

Gannet in my "garden" (corner of the Dumfries rally field)

 

[icantremember]

Gannet in my "garden" (corner of the Dumfries rally field)

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.... and I thought you were the sensible one on here Wendy, but you are just as daft as the rest of us.

 

[davanne]

It's a bit fuzzy and no 50p for size ( ) but could it be a juvenile starling?

Thanks Wendy that’s what we thought but it was very light round it’s eyes

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[CWH]

Thanks Wendy that’s what we thought but it was very light round it’s eyes

Young starlings come in a wide range of colourways...

 

[Baldybazza]

Birds we see regularly on or around our feeder:-

House sparrow
Dunnock
Siskin
Starling
Blackbird
Collared Dove
Wood Pigeon
Jackdaw
Crow
Bluetit
Great Tit
Long Tailed Tit
Robin
Wren
Goldfinch

Birds occasionaly seen in the rest of the garden :-

Green Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (not recently)
Sparrowhawk
Rook
Jay
Greenfinch (not recently)
Brown Rat who used to raid the feeder
Field Mouse who used to clear up the seed on the ground

Birds seen in the air over the garden :-

Red Kite
Buzzard
Heron
Gulls
Arctic Tern
Swallows
Song Thrush (more often heard than seen)
Cuckoo (more often heard than seen)

Bazza

 

[Ivory55]

Nothing special still in our garden but we do seem to be getting a lot more starlings this year feeding on the fat balls.

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[Puddleduck]

He has 4 hens that follow him round and he chases all the other birds away. Only a blackbird is brave enough to challenge - from a distance!

 

[CWH]

Nothing special still in our garden but we do seem to be getting a lot more starlings this year feeding on the fat balls.

They do seem to like fat balls. Anything we can do to help starlings is good, they're a red-listed endangered species, declining population since 1995.

 

[scousebird]

What birds do you get in your garden

A Scousebird

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[Ivory55]

Do starlings have set routine like where they feed etc every day. We seem to get them arriving in the morning and not the rest of the day.

 

[buttons]

Magpies, they chase the rest off......

 

[SpeedyDux]

This frosty morning, a Green Woodpecker visited the back lawn. Handsome chap.

He was spooked by one of the naughty Jackdaws but soon returned to search for ants. There are some ant nests under the lawn. I guess that these ant colonies must generate a bit of heat because they show up as small patches on the lawn where the frost (or sometimes snow) melts first.

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