General Chat

what birds are in your garden? What do you find attracts them to yours. i have alot i live near a wood and feed them peanuts wildbird seed fat balls and apples we have the woodpeckers, blue tits, great tits, coal tits,robins, blackbirds, green finches, good old sparrows doves etc anyone had the waxwings? ive been looking i live in shropshire (ellesmere) What birds now??????

I actually had a robin yesterday which I found unusual! I have allsorts of birds coming in but am not very good with their names! I know one is called Henry...lol! We put loads of stuff out for them, fat balls, peanuts, wildbird food..we also have a large bird table which I just put bread on, 2 bird feeders, a nesting box and a bird bath!!! I love watching them especially in spring...Bev

most people say that bread is no good for them but you put it out and they will eat it birds arent daft!!only when they fly into the window

Susan...I didnt know that bread was supposed to be bad for them!! maybe Id better not put it out in future. Thanks for the tip Bev

We get blackbirds, sparrows, robins, great tits, blue tits, wood pigeons, doves, wagtails, wrens, greenfinches. The occasional visit by long-tailed tits and thrushes! Love garden birds, my sister is lucky as they live in rural Wales and get nuthatch and woodpeckers, as well as seeing red kites overhead.

Despite having 5 cats we still have lots of birds in the garden. Magpies, wood pigeons, blackbirds, starlings, thrushes, blue tits, finches, a jay, a robin, a heron (after next doors fish), crows, and, very occasionally, gulls. I very rarely see any sparrows now though. On Countryfile on BBC1 today, they said the number of sparrows had dropped dramatically over the last 10 years. I can't remember the figures they quoted. Next door neighbours had a family of house martins nesting in their eaves last year. Sue

hi there again everybody the first thing then difference between a crow and jackdaw is that a jackdaw has a black part on his head and is grey/black on the rest of body and the crow is bigger chris new zealand where you from i use to live in richmond nelson nz so no one else seen the waxwings they have apparantly been in shrewsbury and oswestry

hi still wondering if anyone has had anything exciting in there garden dont forget the birdwatch tomorrow

had a red wing in my garden the other day well chuffed

When I was a child at home the garden was full of sparrows, starlings, and a thrush, blackbird or two. Now it is mainly magpies. In my own garden its mainly a few magpies, a blackbird, the occasional robin. I have had ducks lay eggs here, though they abandoned them, and a few doors down a neighbour had a heron on her roof. We also had two flocks of Canada geese on the playing field our house backs onto when we moved in 4 years ago, but now there are only 5. nell

Hi Susan In addition to the ones you listed, we get two nuthatches and a some long tailed tits every day. I've been really pleased to see a thrush recently as I don't see them very often. Heather

RSPB recommend that you do not put out dry bread for birds but that you soak it in water first. Strange but today saw two robins in the garden as they are usually very territorial and both looked like males. we have wagtails, song thrush, starling, greenfinch, bullfinch, blue tits, great tits, jays, jackdaws, ring collared doves, wood pigeon, green woodpecker, greater spotted woodpecker, wren, nuthatch, blackbird, long tailed tits etc,. Live in the south and a wood backs on to garden. Ann

Have you dont the RSPB Garden Birdwatch woday? Takes one hour and yuou fill in a form to say which birds you have seen in your garden. /We have had a heron this year, and also jays and tree creepers as well as the ordinary ones. I did see a Little Egret last year. brenda

I have fairly ordinary birds, including bluetits and a PAIR of robins. I feed them the fat-balls. in netting. I put a proper hanging bird feeder up and only the blue tits used it. I skewered the netting into the ground with a stick and all the birds now argue over pecking order - they obviously prefer their food on the ground. good viewing.

We have most of those in our garden what i really would like to see is a thrush, havent seen one for years We are in Harlow on the edge of the wood Julia

My little boy and I love watching the birds but we don't get very many though we do feed them every day. We get a robin, blackbirds, starlings, wagtails, doves, magpies, hooded crows and bluetits. Very rarely do we see sparrows. Our neighbours' house has a box for birds so we love to see the baby bluetits. Last year when they left their box they were all perched in one of our bushes all cute, fluffy and dopey. One flew through my hair. Love to see them. Lorrainex

I know that earlier in the month people were writing about seeing Long Tailed Tits in their gardens. Before Christmas someone put a tip on the RSPB website about hanging out Digestive Biscuits in one of those flat, mesh holders for slabs of fat. I've tried it and over the past two weeks have daily visits from three or four Long Tailed Tits. The Blue Tits enjoy them too, and the Robin and Dunnocks feed on the crumbs which drop. Was very excited yesterday when I had the most beautifully marked Greater Spotted Woodpecker on my peaqnuts. Rosemary(Essex)

Susan says that according to some bird expert, bread is,nt good as a feed.I would say to this person ,why is it that when i put the bird food out each day,sunflower seed,nuts,fat with the seed in, bread ,some nuts ,and seed on the ground for the bigger birds,that my thrushes ,starlings and blackbirds ignore everything and only eat the bread.Woud'nt you think that after a hundred years or more ,birds would only eat whats good for them,unless there was nothing else to eat? Keep putting the bread out too ,even my robin likes a little from time to time.Fred.ptfg&A&g&w.

Gulls,gulls,gulls and more blooming Gulls-No song birds at all-Rose

we get ,jenny wrens, blue tits, magpies, gulls, pied wagtails crows sparrows starlins