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...

[ruthann58]

well at the moment i have got sparrows (my favourites),long tailed tits, blue tits ,great tits,blackbirds , coal tit , and dunnocks having breakfast like you i just like to watch the garden birds

[ruthann58]

saw on autum watch they other night that there is a disease killing off the finches we have not got any finches at all

[rowanwitch]

I trek all over the place but my garden birds are very special to me considfering its a city garden
i've had house sparrow, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, long tailed tit, green,gold, chaffinches, nuthatches, treecreeper, greater and lesser spotted woodpeckers, magpie, carrion crow, jay, robin, dunnock, wren, blackbird, mistle and song thrush, sparrowhawk, wood, feral pigeons, collared dove, siskin, pied wagtail, starlings, grey heron and swifts and housemartins feeding over head, winter visits from blackheaded and herring gulls, 33 species...but may have missed one or two, also not on the bird list as obviously a mistake a green Macaw in the tree next door one morning...and i also hear tawny owls at night... I bet you have others but just don't pick up on them

[rowanwitch]

we are down on fiches this year but I clean my feeders approx once a month now and will do it more often once they get busier

[sandyRoe]

Starlings are regulars at the bird table. Sometimes Blackbirds and Magpies, Robins, Blue Tits, and Sparrows. Once a Jay and on a couple of occasions a predator.

[rowanwitch]

add some hanging fat ball feeders and watch the variety go up....I feed with fat balls, peanuts, mixed seed, robin mix, dried mealworms and old catfood for the crow family I think thats why I have so many different visitors

[kawakiri]

Can't say that I go out purposely to spot birds but I did see about 20 Waxwings in Chester a few tears back, and a few years before that I spotted two gold crests in the Berberis in my garden.

[jules77]

My friend has more birds in her garden than the local RSPB Centre, but we are very light this year. Only thing that tempts them now is sunflower hearts, they wont even eat the hanging suet bird cakes....and last year they were getting through two or three a week.

[sandyRoe]

And last year during the snowy week, a Fieldfare which chased the Blackbirds.

[rowanwitch]

Does add a lot of interest to a walk... I even occasionally check the grounds where I work before they built the new hospital I managed most of the birds on my garden list except heron and lesser spotted woodpecker plus goldcrest, green woodpecker and blackcap heard chiffchaffs too

[ruthann58]

sorry i only put what i could see at the moment as i am sitting here ,yes we have loads of others will list them later better get on with the day to day chores now

[rowanwitch]

jules...just goes to show how important gardens are for conservation/biodiversity...mine looks quite conventional at first sight but has loads of wildlife friendly stuff so we get lots of butterflies ,and amphibians too as there are two small ponds

[redman41]

It would be nice having a separate Section Titled 'Birds' in the Animal & Nature Section, so that keen Bird watchers rather than Twitchers can Post about what Birds have been seen in different locations around the UK.
It's a fantastic Hobby which many people enjoy and once you arm yourself with a decent Pair of Binoculars and a Bird Identification Book, it's a cheap Hobby to pursue.
The more this section is used then possibly the Ed may help out by giving us a New and separate Section for this purpose.
It may also encourage other ABers to take up this delightful Hobby for the first time.

[NazNomad]

I'm in ...

[hellywelly4]

Since I put up a nyger seed feeder I've had loads of goldfinches in my garden. Really worth knowing about.

[Prudie]

I'd be interested too. Just in my garden I get regularly starlings, blackbird, robin, hedge sparrow, dunnock, blue-tit, great-tit, coal-tit and long-tailed tit, chaffinch, greenfich and goldfinches,wagtails, wood pigeons, collared doves,wren, warblers I can't tell which (chiff-chaff, garden maybe?) and fieldfares in the winter. I've also had occasionally and which thrilled me sparrow hawk, goldcrest, siskin, spotted flycatcher and black redstart.
Never a waxwing though :-(

[NazNomad]

One of my 'regulars' ... http://img573.imagesh...9089/woodpecker01.jpg

[Prudie]

Lucky you Naz, not enough trees round me. You're N Wales aren't you??

[redman41]

Have Posted in the Suggestions Section on your behalf Rowan ! Hopefully the Editor can consider your request and help out.

[NazNomad]

West, Prudie.