Birds

[Just Before Dawn]

Living in town means my garden list is feeble, and as follows...

Blackbird

Blue tit

Starling

House sparrow

Collared dove

Stock dove

My dad, however lives a mile or so from the coast in a house with a big wooded garden. His garden list so far this year is....

Kestrel

Sparrowhawk

Merlin

mallard

redshank

lapwing

grey plover

jackdaw

Carrion Crow

Rook

Magpie

Tawny owl

Little owl

Collared Dove

Turtle Dove

Woodpigeon

Skylark

meadow pipit

spotted flycatcher

pied flycatcher

Cuckoo

blackbird

Song thrush

Mistle thrush

redstart

robin

willow warbler

blackcap

whitethroat

lesser whitethroat

garden warbler

sedge warbler

goldfinch

greenfinch

chaffinch

bullfinch

corn bunting

yellowhammer

reed bunting

This before autumn passage is in full swing........

[disco-barry]

I like tits.

Edited September 4, 2007 by Wibs
Now now DB... be nice!

[Gray-Wolf]

D.B.! You shouldn't go annoying the Birds on here pal!

[Guest Viking141]

Rcently I have had the following in my garden:

Starling

House Sparrow

Herring Gull

Blackbird

Song Thrush

Collared Dove

Pied Wagtail

Siskin

We currently have loads of Starlins and Sparrows visiting us (the Sparrows in particular seem to have bred very well this year) and lesser numbers of the rest.

:lol:

[Greyowl]

Around, In or over the garden!.

Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Sparrow hawk, Kestrel, Blue tit, great tit, Long tailed tit, Dunnock, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Starling, Blackbird, Song thrush, Mistle thrush, Rook, Jackdaw, Magpie, Green woodpecker, Cuckoo, Woodpigeon, Collard dove, Robin, Wren, and hundreds of sparrows.

In the fields nearby we have also seen, Heron, Mute swan, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, and a common buzzard.

Forgot to add Swallows, House martins and Chaffinch.

[Slinky]

wow some of you are really lucky! Not get much other then the usuall garden birds, this year have had a marsh harrier flycatcher and have had peregrine falcons (had chick too ! got a mention in the local rag for that)

Edited September 4, 2007 by Slinky

[disco-barry]

D.B.! You shouldn't go annoying the Birds on here pal!

Who the Great tit?

Hehe

Edited September 4, 2007 by disco-barry

[PersianPaladin]

Who the Great tit?

Hehe

Better tits up here than down in Halifax mate.

[disco-barry]

Yeah until they speak! haha

Besides I'm NOT from Halifax and i never have been from Halifax i just work there, Owl outside house at GF's on a car, tawny she thinks

Edited September 4, 2007 by disco-barry

[Sharkbait]

I remembered reading through this post the first time and thought then, what a good variety of birds some people get. Unfortunately I don't normally get anytyhing more than collared doves, blackbirds, the odd passing sparrow and wood pigeons but tonight I had a couple of grey wagtails visit my pond, it was good to see them feeding and drinking.

Edited September 13, 2007 by potsy

[disco-barry]

Just keep your eyes peeled Potsy and plant things or put in a pond to attract the wildlife

[M'Lady]

Our visitors have included wood pigeons, blackbirds, sparrows, the very occasional robin and bluetit, magpies and seagulls.

[noggin]

Blackbirds (nest in the same place each year)

Sparrows (making a comeback)

Magpies (yuk)

Blue tits

Robins

Wrens

Starlings (although fewer than before)

Wood pigeons

Redwings (they haven't arrived yet, but I'm sure they are on the way.....great flocks of them)

Heron (occasionally)

Jays (beautiful plumage, especially the blue)

One visit from an enormous (and I mean enormous!) black bird. I didn't know what this absolutely massive bird was, so I researched it and it turned out to be a Raven. Never seen one here before, but I am just on the very outer-reaches of it's habitat. I still can't get over how big it was.

Hedgehogs (not birds, but so what!)

One pesky squirrel who insists on burying his nuts in my lawn!

One night during last Winter, I saw a badger crossing the road at about 11 o'clock.

[mettalfabrik]

Nice thread

we have a ROBIN loads of STRARLINGS BLUE TITS GREAT TITS GREENFINCHES HOUSESPARROWS ROOKS CROWS

JACKDAWS occasional MAGPIE a couple of COLLARED DOVES and two ex RACING PIGEONS some GREY WAGTAILS who love my big front lawn

skywards there are a lot HOUSE MARTINS and SWALLOWS several BUZZARDS and a local SPARROW HAWK

incidently i saw the nieghbours cat stalking some young starlings on my lawn just as the cat was about to pounce the sparrow hawk swooped down and took one,the cat looked absolutley gutted!

[disco-barry]

I saw a Yellow Wagtail yesterday, beautiful bird.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Saw a kingfisher from my office window today.

Beat that.

[Gray-Wolf]

I saw a Yellow Wagtail yesterday, beautiful bird.

Next time your at Star G. have a shuffty in the river and you'll see them on the rocks down there, and occasionally the Dipper, and even rarer the flash/streak of blue/Azure as the Kingfisher flits by!

[disco-barry]

I see kingfishers quite regular OON at my girlfriends house by the brook....

...GW I've seen some interesting birds down there you know but what i cannot remember, I'll be surely seeing a heck of alot more when i move into the pennines so i can't wait.

[Gray-Wolf]

...GW I've seen some interesting birds down there you know but what i cannot remember, I'll be surely seeing a heck of alot more when i move into the pennines so i can't wait.

I hope your girlfriend approves of you seeing lots more birds!!!

[disco-barry]

haha, she gets annoyed when i see alot of tits!

[Just Before Dawn]

The first of the winter visitors are arriving - overnight I heard at least two large skeins of Pink-footed geese fly over and when I got up this morning I noticed the first Brambling of the winter sitting in a tree outside the house. With the synoptics for the week ahead ideal for autumn southerly migration - next week could see the first arrivals of Redwing and fieldfare. A brief trip to our local nature reserve yesterday yielded plenty of typical autumn migrant waders - curlew sandpiper in especially good numbers.

[Gray-Wolf]

You can already hear the Redwing/Fieldfare overflying at night and the Feildfare are in the feilds/parks around here already (though not in numbers)

[Slinky]

seems like this a good thread to get an identification done on the bird in the photo i took this morning.

There were 4 of them in total, could not get a clear shot as they were sitting about a meter above me.

Edited September 27, 2007 by Slinky

[Hiya]

seems like this a good thread to get an identification done on the bird in the photo i took this morning.

There were 4 of them in total, could not get a clear shot as they were sitting about a meter above me.

Thats's a sparrowhawk, probably a family group you saw.

[Slinky]

Thats's a sparrowhawk, probably a family group you saw.

Thankyou or your reply It crossed my mind but was unsure. didnt know they had groups o them-the crows were giving them all hell!!

thank you again