What birds do you get in your garden (2 Viewers)

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One of our pigeons has discovered that she (or he) can reach the seed feeder from the white cross pole. Funny to watch!

The young hawk has been back the last two days...... she tried to land on the roof yesterday and slid all the way off. A real clatter as she came down the slates. She has managed to catch a few mice even though the sparrows are too fast and clever for her.
 
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We live at the top of a hill and yesterday as we left home in the car to drive down to the A48 we were level with a red kite that was flying over a sloping field.........we often get them flying over the garden but this was so much closer.
We are still getting the usual array of birds including our resident woodpecker ...I’ve not taken any photos recently but will see what we have visiting today and try to get a photo or two.
 
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Just heard a thud from the patio area ,looked out to see a sparrowhawk with one of our local doves , there are now feathers everywhere and one hawk enjoying brunch

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We have a couple of sea gulls trying to land this morning. As the garden is small they seem to panic and take off again with out landing.
 
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Just heard a thud from the patio area ,looked out to see a sparrowhawk with one of our local doves , there are now feathers everywhere and one hawk enjoying brunch
We have a resident sparrowhawk too........he has recently taken to flying into the glass on our back door when trying to catch small birds .....he must be quite young and not quite got the hang of catching prey.
 

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Nuthatch, always nice to see.
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We live on the edge of town with fields front and rear we have bird feeders up but really seem to struggle with any type of song birds we get black birds and the odd robin but not much else

I put it down to the huge number of magpies around us and huge numbers of grey squirrels both of which I have seen in spring going up and down the hedgerows eating all the birds eggs
 
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This heron flew in with me sat, albeit inside, but big window and only 15’ away

No harm done, just had a look, but I suspect he will be back :(

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This heron flew in with me sat, albeit inside, but big window and only 15’ away

No harm done, just had a look, but I suspect he will be back :(

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A heron took two beautiful koi from my pond when I lived in Lancashire:( after that we had netting over which did deter it from trying again.

My step daughter and her husband have a huge pond complex outside the conservatory at their farm and they can be sat right by the edge and the heron still comes to try his luck. They have a very fine but strong mesh over the main pond where the fish are which seems to work.
 

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When the starlings arrive in our garden it’s usually on mass. I just wondered how far they travel each day for food as we never seem to see them roosting at night near us.
 

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The wife goes out there to hang the washing every now and again!

Oh and a green woodpecker in our front garden from time to time.

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A heron took two beautiful koi from my pond when I lived in Lancashire:( after that we had netting over which did deter it from trying again.

My step daughter and her husband have a huge pond complex outside the conservatory at their farm and they can be sat right by the edge and the heron still comes to try his luck. They have a very fine but strong mesh over the main pond where the fish are which seems to work.

When I had my pond I was told that if I put bushes around the outside of it so that the heron would feel hemmed in, it would save the koi carp... it didn't :( .

Beautiful to see but I could have turned meat eater.

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We have a resident sparrowhawk too........he has recently taken to flying into the glass on our back door when trying to catch small birds .....he must be quite young and not quite got the hang of catching prey.

We had that problem so stuck some bird silhouettes on our window,,not had a strike since,,Last one to hit the window was a lovely thrush and it killed itself,,BUSBY:(:(
 
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The Green Woodpecker was last seen on a branch, calling and turning in different directions for about 10 minutes. It sounded like he was hoping to attract a mate.

No takers, so he hasn't been seen for several days. He must have gone to try his luck somewhere else.

A couple of Black Caps are now visiting the feeders. The resident Robin has joined the Starlings and Blackbirds where I put out mealworms. :)


Last year the dopey Woodpigeons kept flying into the patio doors even when the curtains were drawn. None of them suffered more than bruising.

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That was my first thought actually so I cheated on t'internet and the head is a bit more red on the redpol I think.

Martin

your wisdom has been corroborated by a birding friend on FB, I fully concede that it was a redpoll :)(y)

not so sure about your version of the spelling though :LOL:

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and after reviewing this it could still be either o_O
 

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your wisdom has been corroborated by a birding friend on FB, I fully concede that it was a redpoll :)(y)

not so sure about your version of the spelling though :LOL:

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and after reviewing this it could still be either o_O
I should have cheated with the spelling as well, maybe it's the Spanish version juanell,

Martin

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We think we have a couple of dunnets again in the garden. They are so flighty and quick it’s hard to tell. They definitely move faster than than the sparrow that comes.

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We think we have a couple of dunnets again in the garden. They are so flighty and quick it’s hard to tell. They definitely move faster than than the sparrow that comes.

Do you mean Dunnock, we get them one clue we were given years ago to identify was they rarely go above head height

They are also a lot greyer than a sparrow particularly head and chest

But then as we have learnt different sex and juvenile plumage makes so much difference, that is why birders use LBJ

Little brown job , when in doubt :)
 
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We have dunnocks as well and they won’t feed on the high bird house feeder they only eat from the tray on the low wall.

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He's a nice size for the pot ..;)
The pheasant (Phillip) was a regular visitor this time last year. He was very friendly walking around looking in the window at us. Then he stopped coming and I fear the pot was his fate. It’s the bloody cat I would like to put in a pot!

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