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Thread #125505   Message #2779521
Posted By: GUEST,Peter Laban
03-Dec-09 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Which birds come a-visiting you?
Subject: RE: BS: Which birds come a-visiting you?
At the bird feeders at the moment we have rakes or Great Tits, Blue tits, Coal tits and a few Long Tailed tits as well. (Yes the resident teenager has done 'Look, there's a pair of great tits in the garden').
Chaffinces, Green Finches, Goldfinches and Bullfinches, the odd Siskin too, House sparrows, Chiffchaffs. I have seen treecreepers but not many or often, both Grey and Pied Wagtails, Robins and Wrens ofcourse (the cats do tend to decimate the Wrens though). Magpies are a nuisance around the house (several nests around the house this summer, a heron has emptied the pond of goldfish (we seem to have scared it away now). Hooded Crows, Rooks, Blackbirds and Starlings. Ravens overhead every day. I have seen a Stonechat in the garden during summer but only once, the odd cuckoo has landed in our trees (they're unbelievably loud up close). Pheasants visit, I saw a Peregrine lift a small bird off the feeder once but Kestrels are more common. More ofcourse, Skylarks, Thrushes, Pigeons. More probably that I forget right now or just don't recognise when I see them.
We don't get Coughs right here but I do see them near the Cliffs of Moher (which is maybe ten miles away as the crows fly).