Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?

[Richard]

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I'm noticing a lot of changes this year in the Garden.

Seen more of..

Robins
Wrens
Sparrows
Crows
Blackbirds
All Tits

Seen less of..

Chaffinch's
Woodpeckers (none at all - very unusual)

There have been Sparrowhawks in the nearby wood but they seem to have been concentrating on the Pigeons more than anything else, feathers around the edge of the field everywhere.

I'm hoping to see a Chaffinch soon, the Rose Hips are getting ready for a good take away!

How are your birds doing?

Richard

[Mo]

Due to the failure of our peas and brassicas I've been neglecting the hoe. So we have seeds for the Goldfinches.

[wendy]

All those you have seen Richard.

Plus

Magpies,
Collared Doves,
Wood pigeons
Jay
Peregrine Falcon, [who dines on the feral pigeons]............. in my garden

Hardy ever see
Starlings.

[Mo]

Buzzards over our heads.

[kitla]

we have a lot of starlings, I have a feeder of growers pellets near the house & their
fledgings tuck in regularly! We have buzzards and kites in the fields too, and house
martins but not so many as usual.
Less tits, finches and thinking about it we haven't heard the woodpeckers for a while
either. Perhaps the buzzards have scared a few things off.

[Richard]

Interesting.

I haven't seen a Starling at all, but rarely do anyway.

Wendy - forgot, we're overloaded with Magpies as well, noisy so and so's !!

Richard

[Katiee]

this may not be classed as "garden birds"....but we recently had a pair of Canada geese with their four little ones stop off in our garden...they had a nice hour sunbathing, driving the chucks crazy, chewing the grass, then following their tiny offspring back into the adjoining field and into oblivion....

[Richard]

Wonderful Katiee

[albertajune]

Seen an extra lot of magpies and crows.
Also collared doves
blackbirds
A pair of woodpeckers
great tits
redstarts

We never see starlings or sparrow but do enjoy watching a pair of red kites that regularly fly overhead. The pheasants are going up in number and are regularly seen in the green area opposite my home.
Not garden birds, but watched from my garden, so as good as.

[Gwenoakes]

Havent seen Starlings since we moved here in 2006 and yet there were lots of them when we lived in a town.

Just thought, we havent seen any Blue Tits or Great Tits this year either.

Our garden visitors are:-

Robins
Sparrows who are getting quite rotund eating Dally the ducks food
All kinds of Wagtails who regularly nest in the barns
Collared Doves
Wood Pigeons
Racing Pigeons gone wild
Crows in their hundreds, looks like a scene out of the film called The Birds, I think it was called, when they are in the paddocks
Jackdaws
Sparrowhawks
Buzzards
Red Kites
Blackbirds
Song Thrushes
Wrens who regularly nest in the washouse
Bull finches
Chaffinch
Yellow hammers
Barn Owl
Tawny Owl
Little Owl
Kestrels who nest in the large tree in one of the paddocks
Green Woodpecker, but only odd visits from them
Swallows in their hundreds, pooping everywhere
Egrets (poss sp) but they are white and smaller than the Herons
Herons
Magpies
Wild ducks that sit on the lawn and talk to Dally now and again


There is another bird that is a mottley brown, not too big and they migrate in winter and usually eat any fallen apples off the tree before they go......cant remember their name though.

[fabindia]

How big is your garden Gwen? The size of Northumberland?

[Gwenoakes]

Not quite, Fabindia. LOL

I do count the paddocks that surround our garden and house as garden though, so approx 5 acres.

[fabindia]

5 acres, that's what I call a garden.