Hey guys,
Out of interest I was wondering what is the most common bird in your garden and what part of the country you are from :)
I live in west London and my area has quite a few trees and I must say that the most common birds in my garden are Great Tits!
What about you?
Wow! A lot of variety :)
We don't get Bullfinch in my garden - apparently they do cover London, never seen any though! They don't exactly seem the type of bird that is easily missed :)
Hi Twinkie
We do have a good variety of birds in the garden, Goldfinches 20+ Greenfinches this year 12+ male and female blackbirds, lots starlings 20+or more, house sparrows poss 10, 1 Robin, 5 Bluetits, 1 Great Tit, hope for more, one pair of Blackcaps, 1 pair Siskins, 1 Coal Tit, Magpies now and again, and Jackdaws, Collared Doves, 1 pair Woodpigeons, thats it up to now I think!!! :)
Also a male sparrowhawk who visits now and again!!!
Unknown said: 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.
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.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Apart from the local crowd of Collared Doves, the commonest birds in my part of SW London now are Blue, Great and Coal Tits. I've lived here all my life and this is very different to my childhood when we used to have dozens of resident house sparrows (three or four visit occasionally these days) several blackbirds (one pair now) and song thrushes (none last year) but tits of any kind were a rarity.
Just half a mile down the valley there's a pair established on top of the hill and where I go walking.
A bird in the hand can make an awful mess!
Northernlass, it sounds as though you have it all!
hi from west scotland, we get tons of chaffinches and goldfinches and then all the other suspects but what i would really like more of are wrens, song thrushes and sparrows we very very rarely get them anymore.
I first realized that i was going bald when it started taking me longer to wash my face......
I'd love to know how many wrens we have - I'm forever hearing them but I almost never see one! Dear little things.
Indeed they are Clare - started my day by seeing a wren from my bedroom window - no pics though but watched it for ages dotting around & then I had the pleasure of seeing a bluetit on the suet feeder & a great tit (may have been two in rapid succession) taking peanuts from the Jay feeder and then..............after a long absence my Jay visited, stocked up & vanished!! All this in addition to my regulars, being 50 sparrows, 20 starlings, pair of collared doves, pair 0f woodies, pair of dunnocks, up to six or 8 blackbirds & now a pair of robins and, of course, my kestrel.....keeps me busy enough although I keep a keen lookout for anything more 'exotic'!!
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