Most popular birds in your garden

We're in Winsford, Cheshire. The 20+ collared doves are probably the most noticeable, but we have dozens of sparrows and starlings too as well as double figures of blackbirds, tits and jackdaws.

Hello Twinkle,

Welcome to the forum, we have Blackbirds,Starlings a few sparrows and blue/great tits opposite our house. in the Essex area.

Hi Twinkie, welcome to the forum from saddleworth! I'm just around the corner front Dove Stone  Reservoir! U have plenty of blue and great tits. Also long tailed tits make they appearance too!

My most common visitors are Sparrows. A flock of 20+ is more or less resident. About 4 Bluetits and half a dozen Great Tits are also regulars along with one Coal Tit , a couple of Dunnocks , one sometimes two Robins , and four or five Blackbirds. I also get regular calls from a small flock of Starlings , 4 Collared Doves , two or three Feral Pigeons and a Wood Pigeon or two. For the last few weeks I have been inundated by Goldfinches , anything from a dozen to as many as fifty at peaks times. They're accompanied by six Greenfinches.

More on the ground clearing up the fallen nyjer seeds.

... and still more waiting their turn , in a tree that overhangs my garden. You have to look hard to see how many there are dotted all over the tree.

How many can you find ? To make it easier I've drawn a grid over the photo.

A Sparrowhawk passes through occasionally , the latest visit being this morning. Fortunately it didn't make a kill in my garden and took off chasing a couple of Collared Doves. A party of Long-tailed Tits comes by once in a while but I haven't spotted them since just before Christmas. I often see Magpies and Crows in a large Poplar tree that overhangs my garden , and Black-headed gulls often pass overhead during the day.

Hello Twinkie

Lovely to know your most common birds are great tits. And a great photo! I think I would have to agree (great tits, or blue tits, I am not sure which is the most common). However it does vary in my garden. At the moment, the seed feeders are almost completely swamped with squirrels. When the squirrels are not in such large numbers, I have a greater variety of birds, with many species of finch. And when I put out the niger seed, the goldfinches are nearly as plentiful as the great tits and blue tits.

Not as common, but regular visitors are the great spotted woodpeckers. Here's a Dad feeding a young one.

I'm from a very rural spot in West Kent.

Hi From Scotland , We have loads of tits and finches also lots of sparrows ..

Hello Twinkie and a warm welcome from me in Cheshire.     I guess the most popular garden bird here would be the Blue Tit for us but we do have all the members of the Tit family including daily visits from the Long Tailed Tits.    We are lucky enough to now have 19 species in our garden including a new one which visited last night and then again this morning, not that we were that keen as it was a SparrowHawk  after our little birds   !!!

This time of year, it's going to be a close call between tits and finches.  We've got blue, great, coal and long-tail tits in abundance.  We've got tree creepers, woodpeckers, gold crest, nut-hatch, mistle and song thrush, loads of robins.

But my very favourites are birds of prey and we've got barn owl, tawny owl, short-eared owl, Merlin, buzzards, sparrowhawk.

We're on a farm in a very rural location in the foothills of the cheviots in Northumberland.

Up here in N.Yorks Wood Pigeons and Jackdaws at the moment around the feeders but to favourite at the moment is up to 8 Bullfinch.