Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

We went down to the social club the other day Mrs manages it just to let some air in the place and run some water through the lines she nips out for a fag comes running back in as she put her fag in the Ash tray she heard a noise turns out a blue tit has nested in there luckily fag went at other end to bird.
 
We sadly had to move a couple of years ago but the old place was ideally placed.

We had the lot, Blue, Great, Coal and Long Tailed Tits, Chaffinch plus Green, Gold & Bullfinch varieties. Blackcaps, Song, Mistle & Redwing Thrushes, a pair of Sparrow Hawks on the back door step (male & female), Great Spotted & Green Woodpeckers (the Greens were a complete family together). Various Owls and even bats roosting in the conifers at the end of the garden up until the bloody nuns at the monastery chopped them down with no warning.

God I miss that garden and view.
 
Centurions said:
We sadly had to move a couple of years ago but the old place was ideally placed.

We had the lot, Blue, Great, Coal and Long Tailed Tits, Chaffinch plus Green, Gold & Bullfinch varieties. Blackcaps, Song, Mistle & Redwing Thrushes, a pair of Sparrow Hawks on the back door step (male & female), Great Spotted & Green Woodpeckers (the Greens were a complete family together). Various Owls and even bats roosting in the conifers at the end of the garden up until the bloody nuns at the monastery chopped them down with no warning.

God I miss that garden and view.
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Bloody nuns cutting trees down? That was a bad habit.
 
I’ve been feeding the birds in the garden during the lock down.

Been surprised at the variety that have come to the feeders. Was going well for a few weeks seeing them come and go. Was only a matter of time though before something came along to knock the feeders over - squirrel or large dove.
 
We've seen 8 starlings at once in our garden.

Unrelated issue but we seem to have a lot of hover flies. I know these are harmless and help pollination but can't understand why there's so many, they're so annoying when we sit out. I'm guessing it's to do with the season we are in and having plants.
 
NorCalBlue said:
We have flocks of Cedar Waxwings knocking about at the moment. Very exotic looking birds.
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Your location causes me some depression - I should just be coming to the end of the first week of a 3 week holiday in Myrtle Beach!!

I keep looking each day at the course that I would have been playing - oh well......
 
Centurions said:
We sadly had to move a couple of years ago but the old place was ideally placed.

We had the lot, Blue, Great, Coal and Long Tailed Tits, Chaffinch plus Green, Gold & Bullfinch varieties. Blackcaps, Song, Mistle & Redwing Thrushes, a pair of Sparrow Hawks on the back door step (male & female), Great Spotted & Green Woodpeckers (the Greens were a complete family together). Various Owls and even bats roosting in the conifers at the end of the garden up until the bloody nuns at the monastery chopped them down with no warning.

God I miss that garden and view.
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Centurions said:
We sadly had to move a couple of years ago but the old place was ideally placed.

We had the lot, Blue, Great, Coal and Long Tailed Tits, Chaffinch plus Green, Gold & Bullfinch varieties. Blackcaps, Song, Mistle & Redwing Thrushes, a pair of Sparrow Hawks on the back door step (male & female), Great Spotted & Green Woodpeckers (the Greens were a complete family together). Various Owls and even bats roosting in the conifers at the end of the garden up until the bloody nuns at the monastery chopped them down with no warning.

God I miss that garden and view.
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Where did you live in a fucking avery
 
the 2 main types we get
Wood Pigeons
Rock Doves < Greedy messy fuckers that I wish didn't come around, had to stop putting food out when we had about 15 of them coming regularly.

starting to get these a bit more now but are not common.
Black Birds
Blue tits
Sparrows
Starlings
 
Akpowell said:
Where did you live in a fucking avery
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Semi-rural overlooking the (very) large gardens of a Carmelite Monastery. It's basically a hospice for nuns & monks on their last legs. I might add that we didn't get that lot all at the same time, I missed out the common ones too. My favourite bird is the little Wren which we used to have in abundance. Happily where my PC is, there's a bush right outside the window that the Wrens here seem to favour.
 
Not in my garden but pretty sure I saw a goshawk in Dalby Forest a few weeks ago. I'm no birdwatcher so could be wrong but it was a big fucker if that narrows it down.
 
Every bird known to man are still eating me out of house and home,the down side is i have a really big window that the young uns fly into so i have to keep that curtain closed,still get a few,most kick the bucket but the odd one will just get a headache and i have to keep it indoors till they recover,i love my garden,i know i am really lucky
 
karen7 said:
Every bird known to man are still eating me out of house and home,the down side is i have a really big window that the young uns fly into so i have to keep that curtain closed,still get a few,most kick the bucket but the odd one will just get a headache and i have to keep it indoors till they recover,i love my garden,i know i am really lucky
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That post started so well Kaz :)
 
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