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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby TheOstrich » 02 Apr 2018, 18:04

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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby JoM » 02 Apr 2018, 19:27

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I forgot that we used to have a Robin come to visit, I used to call him Van Persie.
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby miasmum » 02 Apr 2018, 21:14

Can I challenge for the title, we also have a sparrow hawk and a heron

We have blackbirds, robins, wrens, chaffinches, greenfinches, goldfinches, long tailed tits, blue tits, great tits, dunnocks, and wood pigeons, that all come to the garden. Hanging around on the roofs we have jackdaws and magpies.

We get the odd jay and have also had green woodpeckers and black and white ones, but they are a rare treat
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby jenniren » 02 Apr 2018, 23:51

We have quite a variety of birds here. Magpies, starlings, sparrows, blue tits wood pigeons, black birds, the occasional kestrel, wrens, robins and of course being so near to the sea seagulls. The most unusual birds we see regularly are parakeets, apparently some were let loose a few years ago and they're quite common here.
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby Kaz » 03 Apr 2018, 08:08

There are loads of them in Surrey now Jen, for the same reason!
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby JoM » 03 Apr 2018, 08:19

There are some around the Midlands now too!
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby miasmum » 03 Apr 2018, 08:36

And round here. There was a man in our local park taking photos of parakeets in trees.

When we went to Eltham Palace Kaz, there was a whole tree full of them
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby cromwell » 03 Apr 2018, 08:44

Kaz wrote:
JanB wrote:the odd eagle too :shock:


Folks, we have a winner! :shock: :D :lol: :lol:


Not so fast! Now I think about it, I'm sure I saw a Pterodactyl on our back fence last week....!
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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby JanB » 03 Apr 2018, 09:21

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Re: What birds do you have in your garden?

Postby Diflower » 03 Apr 2018, 09:27

The heron, which flies over regularly, stopped on our back neighbour's roof yesterday.
It's not quite in the same league as an eagle, but it is big :)

Some kind of hawk/buzzard on our fence over the weekend.
We get dunnocks, wrens, blackbirds, not as many green or goldfinches as we used to, robins, blue tits, occasional coal tits, sometimes green woodpeckers out the front.
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