I had a Heron land in the garden the other day. I have seen a sparrow hawk once or twice. I hear, but sadly never seen, owls too. I think my favourite is a green woodpecker - only occasionally spotted (no pun intended). Other than that, I have a modest selection in my suburban garden - no count to give sorry.
Never counted and don't know enough to be able to give a reliable count anyway. But from memory and with limited knowledge: On the bird feeder outside my window I've seen Goldfinches Chaffinches House sparrows Coal tits Great tits Blue tits Robins Blackbirds Pied wagtails Grey wagtails Dunnocks Greater woodpeckers Ring necked pheasants (!) Heard or seen elsewhere in the garden Swallows House martins Tawny owls Redstarts Wrens Tree creepers Buzzards Hobbies Kestrels Song thrushes Rooks Ravens Crows Magpies Starlings Mallards ducks Grey heron Canada Geese
So 31. Probably more if I knew what I was looking at. lots of 'little brown jobs' that could be anything for all I know
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We are about 3 miles from Birmingham city centre so I guess an inner suburb. Reasonable amount of trees and green spaces around (parks, playing fields, allotments)
Anyway our regulars are Blue, Great, Coal and Long tailed tits Robins blackbirds wrens Nuthatch - we have a pair dunnocks sparrows-odd one or two starlings- ditto magpies crows - we have a visiting pair who loudly crunch our pond snails jackdaws Green and goldfinches chaffinch collared doves - one very sedate pair feral and wood pigeons heron ( he enjoys swallowing our frogs whole 🤢) parakeets
Occasional visitors Jay sparrowhawk Bullfinch pair blackcap goldcrest
heard seagulls - don’t know species tawny owl
seen overhead swifts
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
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I had a Heron land in the garden the other day.
I have seen a sparrow hawk once or twice.
I hear, but sadly never seen, owls too.
I think my favourite is a green woodpecker - only occasionally spotted (no pun intended).
Other than that, I have a modest selection in my suburban garden - no count to give sorry.
On the bird feeder outside my window I've seen
Goldfinches
Chaffinches
House sparrows
Coal tits
Great tits
Blue tits
Robins
Blackbirds
Pied wagtails
Grey wagtails
Dunnocks
Greater woodpeckers
Ring necked pheasants (!)
Heard or seen elsewhere in the garden
Swallows
House martins
Tawny owls
Redstarts
Wrens
Tree creepers
Buzzards
Hobbies
Kestrels
Song thrushes
Rooks
Ravens
Crows
Magpies
Starlings
Mallards ducks
Grey heron
Canada Geese
So 31. Probably more if I knew what I was looking at. lots of 'little brown jobs' that could be anything for all I know
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Anyway our regulars are
Blue, Great, Coal and Long tailed tits
Robins
blackbirds
wrens
Nuthatch - we have a pair
dunnocks
sparrows-odd one or two
starlings- ditto
magpies
crows - we have a visiting pair who loudly crunch our pond snails
jackdaws
Green and goldfinches
chaffinch
collared doves - one very sedate pair
feral and wood pigeons
heron ( he enjoys swallowing our frogs whole 🤢)
parakeets
Occasional visitors
Jay
sparrowhawk
Bullfinch pair
blackcap
goldcrest
heard
seagulls - don’t know species
tawny owl
seen overhead
swifts
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham