Birds in Our Garden

Excellent photos love to see the birds to in our garden but never a woodpecker but can hear them when out walking.

Thank you Alan for sharing .

Nice photos. I like birds very much, but I stopped feed them. I decided it is better to care for themselves. The pattern has changed a lot since we moved to this house 25 years ago. No sparrows at all, more wood pigeons, fewer blackbirds, more magpies, same number of robins. Occasional visit of other species, mainly in the winter months.

Same here Alan, apart from the Woodpecker! Here's a strange thing - yesterday a Crow was flying over the garden attacking a Seagull in mid air - the Seagull swooped down and - 'thud' - straight into the glass in the back door! It survived and flew off, leaving an imprint of it's wing and tail feathers on the glass. Lots of Starlings on the lawn today, eating red ants.

Lovely pictures Alan I love watching the birds too and we have all the same ones as you plus goldfinches,we did have a woodpecker but not seen him recently and a couple of years ago a green woodpecker eating ants on the patio!!!, a few weeks ago we even had a woodcock!! hubby had been clearing in our little wood and must've disturbed him.
The other day I was waiting for my shopping to be delivered and heard a tap at the door, not the delivery man but a cheeky pheasant wanting his dinner lol, he's become so tame he taps on the window and he even brings his girlfriend along now.
Haven't see a starling here for years Shirley.

Strange isn't it Simbad? Any sightings of that Hazel Dormouse? We still have the Blue Tits in our box ... lovely! :o)

Lovely photos, we have the dunnocks nesting in our Lonicera baggesons gold shrub and we had the blackbirds in there last year :))

Great pics, especially Daddy Woodpecker and the long tailed tit. Its a beautiful thrush too - we don't seem to get thrushes or long tailed tits, though we do get goldfinches.
Do you ever see the baby woodpeckers with their little "red hats"?

Always time to see the photo's of the birds Alan, they are great photo's, I would love to see a woodpecker in my garden but sadly no big trees to attract him, my daughter who is only round the corner does have them occasionally as her house backs onto the grounds of a school playing field with some huge trees along the edges.
We do get lots of birds visiting though so enjoy watching and taking the photo's, like yours they are busy feeding their young at the moment so lots of activity going on....Thankyou for sharing...

Hi Snoopdog I have just checked your photos. You are correct, page 2 bottom right hand side. Nice photo of the young woodpecker being fed by a parent.

Skotkat ... Thank you for your comment ... It a pleasure glad you enjoyed the photos. It was my first blog, I am still finding my way round.

Interesting Kokkinotria, we have also seen an increase in wood-pigeons and magpies.... Hardly ever see a thrush. One season we saw redpolls, they haven't been back again. We haven't seen any gold finches either for 12 months, they used to be regular visitors to our garden.

Shirley we haven't seen starling in the garden, since I managed to photograph a family of them, back in 2011. Glad the seagull flew off OK.

Kathy, the cheeky pheasant and his girlfriend want to be careful .... They obviously don't realised the potential pitfalls of going near someone's kitchen :~))

Daylily, lovely to see the birds building their nests, they work so hard. My late Mum used to have an old metal tea pot hanging up by the handle, under a berberis shrub. She left the lid off it, birds used to nest in it most years. Glad you enjoyed the photos.

Hi Steragram, one year we did three youngsters with a parent .... a few years ago. Of course the camera is never handy, when you need really need it.

Hi Lincslass, glad you enjoyed the photos and thank you for making the time to comment.

Hi Alan, lovely to see many birds in your garden. We are bird lovers and try to attract them to our garden as well. We have different birds from yours and love to watch them. Very nice blog.

brilliant. just got a bird table from our local garden centre and fed with assorted prepacked seeds. had very little interest so consulted an elderly neighbour down the road.
she said put the seeds in a feeder and on the table use
1. mealworms
2. suet pellets
3. grated cheese and
4. bread that has been soaked in water.
did this and now the table gets cleared in no time. just bought a seed feeder and now have to get a peanut feeder.

Enjoyed your blog Alan I just love watching all the different birds, we see much the same as you with the addition of a a pair of Jays, my friendly Doves and occasionally a wren. We also had Robins nesting in the Ivy on the pation they sucessfully raised their little family. I put a blog on a couple of years back if you want to have a peep ;0)

Klahanie, thank you. I seem to remember when I was in Toronto staying with relatives, seeing photographs of blue Jays, red cardinals and looms ....... which have a beautiful song. We bought a CD of loom recordings whilst out there.

What a great blog Alan - it's good to see your garden visitors. Your image of the thrush is ever so clear. I was mistaking a very small dunnock for a thrush a while back but was soon put right.
I have similar visiting my garden, no long tail tits - they sand wash in a neighbours very dry earth but thus far not ventured the 20 metres into my garden. One day, I hope!
We also have a lop sided magpies (amongst others) one of his legs is dangling and he doesn't use it and often staggers around, he gets by with it though.
Starlings, blinking pests!! For anyone reading this, let me know, I'll send you a dozen or so :)

Hi Maisiesdad, I hope you get many hours of pleasure from your bird table. A few raisins always goes down well with the blackbirds. Keep your camera handy and let us know how you get on.

Thanks Carole, glad you liked the blog ... I am sure I will get better with practice. I will certainly take a look through your blog archive, to track down your birds blog. Thanks for mentioning it.

Angie, I haven't seen many starlings for a few years. I can't say I'm sorry. I seem to remember as a youngster, they used to swarm around in small groups like locusts devouring everything, on any bird table. Glad you liked my first attempt.

PS Please keep them up north... Ta. :~))

Alan the blog I mentioned was, April 2012 A very Special Event ;0)

Just had a look Carole, thank you ....... Very good.

Shirley no no signs but we have put the birdbox back where it was so fingers crossed, I've since discovered that there has been a dormouse release programme quite near to us so it would be lovely to think they are in the garden.
Lol Alan they're quite safe here don't think it'd be right serving Phil and the missus for dinner!!! the kids would never forgive me lol.

Nice to see different birds in our gardens :)

alan, our kitchen windowsil looks like a bird supermarket, so now i have to add raisins to the shopping list. dave

Hywel, fully agree, we need to preserve them for generations to come.

Dave, you could always share them with the birds and put a few on your cereal <]:~))

Kathy, if there is a dormouse release programme nearby, keep your garage door closed ... they just love birdseed <]:~))

Simbad - I love the sound of a 'Dormouse release programme'! - good job it's not near my garden as Megan cat would be so happy! :o)

Kathy, I think I have one of your Dormice in my bag of bark ..... LOL ..... :~)) (Photo no. 30)

Only just seen this lovely blog. I don't seem to get thrushes; not through lack of trying though.

Digginfit, it's funny you say that, years ago as a youngster starling, thrushes and blackbird are the birds I remember, as being quite common. Nowadays, we may get one thrush a few times a year and hardly ever see starlings. Loads of blackbirds and there chicks at the moment, unfortunately there is a couple of magpies around that keep pestering them.

I had loads of starlings last year, but none this year. Blackbirds and the usual blue tits and great tits are in abundance too. I agree about magpies; they're tinkers!
Last year too I had a pair of crested tits who regularly visited the feeders, but they haven't been around either.

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wonderful :-O

Thank you <]:-))