By this I mean in numbers so 1 is the highest amount of birds. Just to see if there are similarities state your County & habitat i.e. urban, countryside, coastal, etc. I'm just wondering about the sparrows being on red list & seeing whether we have similarities which contrast the theory of reduced numbers.
My area is Urban - West Midlands.
1. Starlings (approximately 40-55).
2.Collared Doves (approximately 18-22)
3. Sparrows (approximately 12-18)
4.Wood Pigeons (approximately 8-11)
5. Dunnocks (approximately 5-7)
Susan H said: We also find the sparrowhawks take a collared dove from time to time. We have a largish pine tree in the middle of the back garden where the collared doves like to sit, so all the sparrowhawk has to do is to pick one, like picking a rotisserie chicken at the Sainsburys deli counter.
We also find the sparrowhawks take a collared dove from time to time. We have a largish pine tree in the middle of the back garden where the collared doves like to sit, so all the sparrowhawk has to do is to pick one, like picking a rotisserie chicken at the Sainsburys deli counter.
LOL Maisie.
I hope all those birds aren't in your garden at the same time or there would be no room for you!
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I'm afraid they are! Luckily we have a pretty sizeable garden. This is a fairly rubbish photo of part of the collared dove rotisserie:
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Hi Again, I am amazed at the number of collared doves some of you have in your gardens. I have one pair and that is it!
I think I am lucky enough to have so many chaffinches because there are plenty of mature trees behind my garden and we are also close to woodland.
Do any of you ever see song thrushes? I never see a song thrush. I had a mistal thrush recently who arrived around the same time as the fieldfare but he didn't stay around long. I never see any wrens either. And I have only one pair of dunnocks that my robin terrorises mercylessly.
Maisie, your collared doves are beautiful.
Woodpecker, I am also close to woodland and have plenty of mature trees in the farm fields next to my garden. The chaffinches just don't like me, that's all I can say!
However, since the other day, I now have 2 regular song thrushes. They come for the sultanas and seem to like mueseli.
Cheers, Linda.
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my area is urbanish - I live in a small town in the South Wales Valleys on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, so lots of mountains all around!
1. House Sparrows - between 20-40
2. Starlings - approx 10+ depending on the time of year and whether I've mowed the grass!
3. Blackbirds - 5+
4. Jackdaws - usually in pairs, sometimes up to 5
5. Robin - only one male and I think a female - he's always visiting and even goes on the bird feeder
we also get a blue tit visiting regularly, a great tit, a coal tit (which got trapped in the house once! he was so tiny, I was so glad I managed to rescue him). I've also seen a wren this week, but wasn't fast enough with my camera, a song or mistle thrush, not sure which (please see photo below) and a reed bunting.
I don't know a lot......but am learning!!
Hi, i live in Flintshire, North Wales. l live on the edge of a housing estate, on the outskirts of a biggish town, but behind me there is a couple of big fields.
My top 5 varies as i have lots of different types of birds (sometimes quite randomly), but only a few of each at any one time. but in general, i would say:
1. sparrows (i'd guess 20+.However, i had 33 at last Big Bird Count (2009)- and i would say there are definately fewer this year - i only counted 18 on saturday, and it was freezing and i had more than the normal number of other birds. Bizarely enought, the vast majority were males, and i saw very few females and even fewer of my juveniles :-( )
2. starlings (about 9 -12, this varies but they are well hard and even bathed on the coldest day last week!)
3. wood pigeons (only ever see two at a time in the garden, but counted about 6 in the tree the other day)
4. blackbirds (4 or 5 - two, possibly three, males (they can appear in twos), and at least one female and one juvenile male)
5. blue tits / redpoll (4 of each at last count, but i think that was the weather, they are normally in twos, sometimes threes)
i know you didnt ask for 6, but I also have loads of crows (about 15) and seagulls (about a million when the weather is bad on the coast) flying over and, in the summer, swifts.
the rest come in ones or twos (and incude, in roughly how often they come order: mice (by the tens), coal tits, robins, great tits, song thrush (summer and autumn mainly), magpies, wrens, goldfinch, goldcrest, siskins, chaffinches, some sort of bird of prey that lands on our shed (kestrel we think), a squirrel, and a heron - oh yes and my newest and most exciting visitor a greater spotted woodpecker!!!!!!!)
I also had 6 or 7 what i have since discovered were fieldfare the other day - as this is a rarity cause of the weather and, as they have not to be seen in a flock since (only one now), i dont think they count! the same goes for my long tailed tits - didnt see them for months last year and then 6 came (2 parents, 4 babies), never to be seen again.... (well one came back on saturday, but he is now avery infrequent visitor). on occaisions (about 1.30 in the afternoon) we also get 2 very very big birds (we think they are buzzards?) who fly over the estate very high and get attacked by the crows.
hope this helps!
I love my garden and the birds, even though they cost me a fortune!
Hi,
that's a Song Thrush - nice and brown with a medium length tail. Mistles are greyer and show pale edgings to the wing feathers and white tail corners :)
S
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OK,
Norfolk Cambridgeshire border- mostly arable.
1- Collared Dove
2- Chaffinch
3- Blue Tit
4- Dunnock
5- Starling
6- Robin
7- magpie
8- GS Woodpecker
9- Wood pigeon
My Area is Countryside - Northwest
1. BlackBird ( Approx 7 )
2. Blue tits ( Approx 2-3)
3. Sparrows (Approx 2-3)
4. Starlings (Approx 4-5)
5. Collar Dove ( Always 2 )
Well said LB.
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