AB Birdwatchers who are you?

[rowanwitch]

Do we have enough posters for a mini forum...we could post our sightings and share advice and other info...
I'm not brilliant but keen, some just love watching their garden birds, but sometimes the 'proper bird forums' are full of people who are really scary as they are soooo knowledgeable while the charm of AB is we can admit we don't know and blatantly google stuff for each other...

[Prudie]

N Wales is the only place I've ever seen a dipper.

[ruthann58]

sparrows ,great tits, blue tits, coal tits, long tailed tits, robins, blackbirds, thrushs dunnocks , wrens , pidgeons , collared doves , magpies, crows , rooks, jackdaws, jays,phesants , kestrels, sparrow hawk, tawney owl , barn owl ,herons , spotted woodpecker , green woodpecker, starlings ,housemartins, swifts blackheaded gulls herring gulls, canada geese ,eygptian geese ,last year we also had gold crests ,gold finches ,chaff finches ,green finches , cant believe we have so many have never written them all down, the owl sits on the chimney and hoots at night , the heron stops by most days to see if the net is off the pond

[rowanwitch]

brilliant for a garden list ruthann where are you based?

[ruthann58]

north suffolk quite near the coast we have a pair return every year and nest in the stable and 1 pair return and nest above the bathroom window never can remember which are martins and which are the swifts , forgot the field fares they are not here yet but wont be long as the apples on next doors trees are dropping and there is always flocks after the apples, also we have peewits on the field next door and sometimes partridges pass through ,

[webbo3]

Im getting .......

Blue tits
Dunnocks
House Sparrows
Wood Pigeons
Collard Doves
A Robin
Homing pigeons
A Blackbird
and a little tiny mouse.

[NazNomad]

Blackbird, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Crow, Chaffinch, Sparrowhawk, Thrush, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Nuthatch, Robin, Siskin, Wren, Woodpecker (Great Spotted), Magpie, Bullfinch (rarely), Common Snipe (cute), Grey Heron (grrr, lol), Jay, Pheasant, Brambling, Mealy Redpoll, Wagtail (Pied & Grey), Redwing, Reed Bunting, House Martin. Cuckoo.

Overhead daily, and in the field behind the house: Red Kite & Buzzard.

Hear owls most nights.

[bensmum]

I get chaffinches, occasional greenfinches, goldfinches, blue tits, great tits, dunnocks, sparrows, nuthatches, robins, wrens, jackdaws, magpies, crows, pigeons, collared doves, sparrow hawks, blackbirds, thrushes, woodpecker (green and spotted), buzzards and kestrels overhead. Probably loads more that I've forgotten
I love watching the birds - they give so much pleasure and it costs next to nothing to enjoy them

[boxtops]

I said on the other thread that I'd like a Bird thread, rowan, I'm up for it. I don't know much but I like what I see with birds.

[wolf63]

My cat Frankie spends most of his afternoons watching birds - pigeons and gulls mostly.
Is this of any help?

[NazNomad]

Send him round, I'll cure that habit.

[ruthann58]

i save all the fat melt in a saucepan then mix porridge oats and bread crumbs in , wrap a piece of cling film or tin foil around a peanut feeder then pack the mixture in put it in the freezer to set for a bit , they love it i know they said on autumewatch they dont like oats but mine do

[redman41]

Cats are welcome, they probably see more Birds than we do ! ;-))

[ruthann58]

my cats sit and watch but the birds dont seem to worry i think they know that before the cats got up the metal feeder pole they would be long gone , we also have a cheeky little mouse who visits every day and at night i can see him as the feeder is outside the lounge window also have a hedgehog who lives in the hay shed and helps himself to the cats food, we have muntjac regularly and proper deers that vist at dawn in the summer got to be up early to catch a glimpse of them

[bensmum]

The birds round here eat oats too, I don't use mixture with a lot of corn in usually although pigeons eat that. I would love to see a red kite overhead here - there are some up north of the county but don't think they've got this far yet. Having said that there was an osprey out on the marshes near here for a while (think it got blown off course) and peregrines have been known to nest in the pylons

[ruthann58]

hi bensmum nice to see you on here yes i would love to see the red kites here

[bensmum]

Hi ruthann - I love birdwatching up in your part of the country - like watching the marsh harriers up there (bit of a bird of prey fan!)

[stompe]

http://www.gigrin.co.uk/redkite.html {:)

[NazNomad]

I may be wrong, but I think Gigrin Farm charge admission. Nant yr Arian don't.

[stompe]

Your right Naz

http://www.gigrin.co.uk/pre.html