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What birds do you get in your garden?
I'd be very Interested to hear from other parts of Britian and overseas as to what kind of birds you get regually in your garden and what feeds.
This is my list this year. Starlings House Sparrows Wood Sparrows Hedge Sparrows Blackbirds Mistle Thrush Thrush Blue Tit Great Tit Coal Tit Wagtail Magpies Green Finch Goldfinch Jackdaw Crow Sparrowhawk Robins Jays The odd Nuthatch Wrens The odd Bullfinch
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you just had to post my favorite topic at midnight didn't you!  Bluejays Red Cardinals Sparrows Woodpeckers Red-Winged Black birds Chick-a-dees Wrens Blackbirds Robins Yellow Finch's Morning Doves Starlings wish we had magpies. |
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I would love to see Bluejays, they are beautiful. And Cardinals. I'm going to have to google Chick-a-dee's as I've not heard of them before. Magpies are one of my favourite birds but unfortunately, they are extremely destructive and will raid other birds nests. I buy Sultana's for them which they love.
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Chick-a-dee is smaller than a sparrow with a bit of black on them....when they sing in the trees, that's exactly how they sound....chick a dee dee dee, chick a dee dee dee........to cute. good thing we don't have magpies, some of our blackbirds are horrible, they attack the sparrows.  |
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Re: What birds do you get in your garden?
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Blackbird Robin Great Tit Blue Tit House Sparrow Tree Sparrow Goldfinch Parakeet Jackdaw We have Kestrels and Sparrowhawk in the area, but they've never landed in my garden. Ditto Herring Gull and what I've always thought were Black Headed Gulls, but might be Mediterranean. Oh, and the occasional Heron. |
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 A suggestion that may help you to get birds nesting in your garden. My brother has a massive garden in Sussex but most of It when he moved in was unsuitable for birds due to veg gardens and concrete etc. He took one one small area of the garden, bought a fairly cheap rose arch and created a very small secluded spot by planting up the bushes I mentioned in the other thread. He planted climbers like Virginia Creeper to cover the arch so It gives the entrance the concept of seclusion. The birds soon took to It and this year he had Blue Tits nesting In there. Just a thought 
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