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Favourite bird to attract to your garden

jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
in Wildlife gardening
I have been trying to attract birds to my garden.  What bird is your favourite in your garden?
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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Any smallish bird that is well mannered, not too noisy and eats all day long so, probably Robin followed by blackbird, sparrows (although the baby ones can be a bit raucous) and any of the tits. Happily I have them all  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    this iis your robin?
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited April 2020
    This is my robin

    cute, understated and eternally hungry.


    Unlike this one that I photographed in California

    Altogether bigger and brighter, 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    I like them both!  I love Robbins.  What do you do to attract them.  I don't have any in my garden
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I don't go messing in either of my sheds over winter until I have to (basically a fair weather, lazy gardener) and there is usually a pair nesting somewhere by February. I also do quite a big of digging and sorting out growbags and pots at this time of year so he (or she who knows?) tracks me like radar snatching anything that moves as they now have hungry mouths to feed.

    Within about 10 minutes of me getting my fork out he is sitting on the washing line post watching closely.

    One bird that fascinates me but I will never have in my garden is the hummingbird. Caught this one on camera in California as well

    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    At only four grams it is my favorite. I love to waTch them everyday.  Ours are migratory and ours ar just arriving. I am planting specifically for it.  I have many other favorites.  Including robins and redewing blackbirds.  Salvia is native here and they use it right away
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Any bird is welcome apart from the parakeets
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Parakeets?
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    You have parakeets?
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