Our Garden Birds

[SueA]

We have a pretty white dove visiting the garden at the moment, well it's a white feral pigeon with just a stripe of grey on it's rear but it looks the part!

[Rosie]

When I've been out in the garden i keep hearing little taps, I have a couple of song thrushes down at the bottm of the garden eating the snails

I'm right off pigeons at the minute, they've eaten my sprout plants

[daitheplant]

That`s a cock bird Sue.

[Cherry]

I think that is an albino SueA. They have them at Ely Cathedral.

[SueA]

We had a young sparrowhawk in the garden this morning, looks like a male but not got the hang of hunting yet as it was pottering around under the birdfeeders & jumping into the flower border & then it sat on the fence where a slightly worried looking woodpigeon landed next to it!

[Cherry]

Brilliant pics, as always SueA. I actually like wood pigeons.

Went to the border of the property to check out the ducks and swans, and was sorry to see empty cartridge cases. Shooters come to shoot pigeons when rape is planted.

[peony]

Brilliant pictures SueA, love the pigeon's worried expression

[daitheplant]

Unusually, the woodpigeon is being sensible, had it tried to fly off the hawk would probably have taken it.

[grindle]

Love that last picture SueA

[SueA]

I think the woodpigeon must have been a bit shortsighted & thought it was another pigeon or else it was being brave & possibly protecting young because it flew down & landed next to the sparrowhawk & then when it flew off into the ivy 'tree' at the end of the garden the woodpigeon flew off after it! Didn't see any feathers anywhere after so I don't think it came to blows.

[SueA]

I got very excited today, a great spotted woodpecker arrived on the bird feeders! Never seen one of those in this area before, it flew up into the oak tree & then came down again & perched on the gate but wouldn't go back to the feeders as there were quite a few other birds around them. I heard it tapping on the tree later as well & saw it flying off, hope it hangs around. There were 8 collared doves at one time in the garden, 2 jays in the tree, 2 wrens on the patio, 2 robins in the ivy, 2 squirrels burying acorns & 3 frogs in the pond - word must have got around!
Managed to snap a photo of the woodpecker through the patio doors.

[grindle]

Oh lucky you, I've never had one in any of my gardens before, great picture too SueA

[SueA]

We've never had one in the garden before either grindle & I've never seen one so close up - just glimpsed them a few times up in trees on walks.

[peony]

Great picture of the woodpecker SueA, I hear them quite often and occasionally they come to the feeders, very handsome birds

[Andrew]

That's a lovely picture SueA. I saw one in our garden one morning last winter. We even had one visit on Christmas Day a few years back.