Your most common garden birds?

[ChickenGuy]

The four birds I see most are:

House Sparrow

Starling

Blackbird

Collared Dove


What about in your garden?

 

[gsdx]

Mostly swallows and mourning doves. A few blue jays and robins. No cardinals yet, but I keep looking for them.

I feed the birds so I'm always on the watch for starlings and pigeons and crows and such, but I've only seen a few of them out there.

 

[star-warrior]

Depends. Our neighbour had some trees at the bottom of her garden and we have a four foot high fence between us. We also had a cherry tree in our garden up until early this year. When they were there, the birds would use the trees as a safety zone and make dive bombing raids on our vegetable garden. These were for the most part house sparrows. They came to be somewhat pest like as they'd peck at the young shoots and we'd get misshapened leaves etc.

After she removed her trees there were less. When we got rid of the cherry tree there were fewer. We had to remove the tree as it became a yearly battle with blackfly. A perrenial menace to any gardener.

When they're in abundance, the sparrows flit between our neighbours, and more than once or twice, we've witness them getting killed by a group of several magpies. Its quite an astonishing thing to see, nature going about its business.

We also have some pidgeons that occasionally fly by. We've had kronking rooks and the odd crow too.

Rarely do we see starlings, maybe because there aren't any high rise near us.

 

[Joshua_me]

Cardinals
Blue Jays
Finch
Something that looks like large gray doves
and best of all...

Little neon green, yellow and purple parakeets.

At least I think they are parakeets. The first time I saw them in the feeder
I thought I was having a flashback. They are so incredibly bright and small...

I keep trying to get a picture of them.

 

[gsdx]

Something that looks like large gray doves

Like this? It's a mourning dove. There is a pair which often comes to feed here.

 

[Triple G]

Quail, roadrunner, blackbird, sparrow

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Seagulls. They rip open the garbage sacks, which causes a lot of problems in Delft.

 

[racer2438]

The four birds I see most are:

House Sparrow

Starling

Blackbird

Collared Dove


What about in your garden?

We have the same type in my back yard, we have Crows also but they hang in the tree's in our area. We also have a Red Tailed Hawk that is a regular.

 

[unloadonme]

Pretty much all of the usual LBJs, but we do have a flock of Long-Tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus) which are nice to have around.

 

[Passiveboy]

Im in the uk here i feed the birds in my garden every day i have blue tit, great tit, robin, blue jay, magpie, gold finch, pigeon black bird and crow and lots off grey squirrel stealing the nuts

 

[Passiveboy]

Pretty birds

I'm sorry but I cannot help but amuse myself researching about tits... There happens to be a bird called the Great Tit.

Great tits are quite common here lol

 

[Joshua_me]

A tit in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 

[geloge]

That awful animals that are very much noisy when I've have a hangover and shit in my clothes when they are drying? I don't look very much to them.

 

[Joshua_me]

Like this? It's a mourning dove. There is a pair which often comes to feed here.

I think that's it...

Ours seem a little larger down here, though.

All that southern cooking I guess...

 

[gsdx]

Ours seem a little larger down here, though.

It's difficult to tell by the photo, but mourning doves are about the size of a pigeon.

They have a rather distinct call. The coo begins at the 44 second mark, but it's rather faint and almost drowned out by the traffic sounds, so you may have to turn up your speakers.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Vultures.

 

[Triple G]

Baltimore Orioles

and Cardinals

The topic is birds, not baseball teams

 

[RationalLunacy]

What are you growing???

Carrion.

 

[Joshua_me]

Carrion.

I like Carry-on Crows
They fit in the overheads...​

 

[hanzosword]

I have red cardinals, robins and blue birds around. They are all so loud in the mornings when it's warm lol.

Many years ago when I was about 10, 3 baby blue birds fell along with their nest and I decided I was going to take care of them. I spent the day trying to teach them to fly and everything with my friends. Unfortunately my stupid friends were too rough with them and they didn't survive long..