What’s in your garden?

At the moment, in the back garden, there are about six great tits flying to and fro from the trees to the bird feeder, whilst a rather plump wood pigeon and a blackbird are eating sunflower seeds dropped under the bird table. In the front garden, I have a crab apple tree, loaded with fruits, as I didn’t get around to picking them to make jelly, but the blackbirds and robin are enjoying them. 😊

Lots of sparrows, blackbirds, robins, occasional bluetit. We also have two pigeons that are with us most of the year. Any birds welcome.

Usually a blackbird family. We also have a robin that pops by. The other day I was on the phone waiting in a queue looking out of the window when I spotted one just as I got through.

SNOW..lots of it..a blackbird thrush, numerous sparrows and various members of the tit family, and beyond my fence on farmland are Rooks and Crows...oh and a Robin just appeared in the garden..

Last time I looked out we had blackbirds, blue and great tits, sparrows, a Robin and the inevitable wood pigeons. We have a wren that visits regularly but is seldom seen although often heard.

And, of course the pesky squirrels.

Not bad for the middle of a large, busy, village.

I’ve just spotted two Redwings, who’ve joined the Blackbirds under the crab apple tree. They are having a feast on the fallen fruits. The Blackbirds are trying to scare the intruders off! Love watching them. 😊

At the moment there are two collared doves sitting on the phone wire in the sunshine. Two or three hen pheasants, and the neighbour's black and white cat passing through has frightened away the small birds.
A while ago there were about eight blackbirds.

A pheasant and blue tits in the back garden Blue tits and a territorial Robin in the front.
We have taken the feeder down as we were getting presents from next doors cats after they had finished their meal. The blue tits come on the window sill and peck at small mites they don't mind us watching.

Sheep -again !

Magpies, crows, blackbirds, sparrows and a sweet little robin has just come in the last week to eat the fruit bread I put out.

Pigeons, doves and leeks!

Ice is in my garden ,yard and front drive. I have not been able to go out since Sunday as the path is too dangerous. I thought it might have thawed today but it is so thick it stayed hard. Luckily I have stocked up with tins and my neighbour got me milk as he can get his car out.

What's in my garden? Lots of very frozen plants which were deceived by the warm autumn weather into staying active for longer than they should have

Small birds are attacking the seed feeder and peanuts but leaving the fat balls. I assume they are too frozen solid for them.

The big apple tree which still has lots of fruit on it is alive with bigger birds having a good feast during daylight hours.

Loads of starlings, feral pigeons, wood pigeon, collared doves, sparrows, magpies, robin, wren, blackbird, and gold finches, plus the odd blue tit, seagull and crow.

Mice as well - next doors cat keeps himself amused for hours.

When it warms up next week I MUST finish planting the tulips.

Today I've had pigeons, starlings, blackbirds, magpies, sparrows, seagulls, crows, blue tits and circling overhead several Red Kites.
A real mix for suburban London garden.

A pair of robins, blue tits, sparrows, wood pigeons, great tits and some ring-necked parakeets. I was amazed, having emptied the block of ice and refilled the birdbath (thinking they'd like a drink) - to see the sparrows queueing up for a good bath!

Sparrows, goldfinches, blue and great tits, a couple of robins about as well as magpies and wood pigeons of course. Starlings on next door's front lawn. Crows, red kites and gulls around too.
Our sparrows like a cold bath too as do the starlings.

Really pleased to see a couple of greenfinches.

Lots of sparrows, pigeons, a few blackbirds (one hen chasing off another), a magpie, a robin and a crow or two but no tits of any kind. They fly across but don't stop.
Gulls occasionally because someone near here feeds them.

We just bought some nyjer seed to encourage them to eat here.

We have seen goldfinches, coaltits, starlings, a sparrow hawk, a wrench, a jay in the past but not recently.

We just bought some nyjer seed to encourage them to eat here
The various tits.
Not the seagulls!

A pheasant Are you my neighbour, Yammy?
Please send him here for a photo opportunity!

We have two cats so not much wildlife. The odd pigeon and white dove fly through but mainly our cats or the ones from next door. One of our rose bushes is still in bloom but everything is frozen. A few other shrubs still have flowers but probably not for long.

3 roe deer running across the snowy lawn looking like a Christmas card
Fieldfares descended on and strpped the apple tree bare.
I haven't put out food but there are berries aplenty.

Blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, a chaffinch, blackbirds, robins, magpies, gulls, fulmars and wood pigeons in the back garden where, oddly, ceanothus and viola are in flower. We haven’t seen the female sparrow hawk for a while.
The front garden is visited by hedgehogs and foxes.

Today the crabapple tree is the star of the show with blackbirds and wood pigeons eating plenty small crab apples that have fallen off the tree on the grass beneath, and loads of crabapples still on the tree. When I see the the heavy fat pigeons bending the twigs they walk on I think 'A partridge in a pear tree'.