Garden birds - wotcha got?

Rocker

We have the usual garden birds, they visit our feeding station where we can watch their coming and goings....
A Sparrow Hawk visits our garden every so often.  A Cock Pheasant is often seen strutting about as are two Wood Pigeons.  A rarer visitor is a Grey Wagtail.  We have a resident pair of Pied Wagtails who pick some of the food that falls from the nut and energy ball feeders.  A pair of Jackdaws have started visiting and take up position under the bird feeders.  A rare and unusual visitor was in the garden during the week - a Redwing.  Redwings are migrant birds of the thrush family, they overwinter here when it gets too cold in Iceland or the Nordic countries.  Flocks of them are to be seen in fields, often in the company of fellow travellers Fieldfares but the odd Redwing likes berries and takes temporary leave from the flock to visit gardens.  A couple of years ago a Hare placed one of her leverts in our garden.  We could see him from the kitchen and observe his mother suckling him.  We were careful not to 'see' him as he crouched down when we went out into the garden.  When he was strong enough he made his way into the field and out of our garden.

FastEddie

We have a group of hooligan blue tits who regularly visit. Apart from that we have a few corpses due to the muscular 6kg black British shorthair car we have called Storm.
When he is sleeping the birds flock in. We keep the grass long to allow more insects places to hide and food for the birds. 

Lots of Red kites, we are in Wiltshire after all, but mainly the smaller birds. 

We don't have a bird feeder as I feel that would be cruel to the birds. Storm is good enough at hunting not to need any help from me. 

bertie

flamingos and griffon vultures

HAL9000

FastEddie said:

Lots of Red kites, we are in Wiltshire after all, but mainly the smaller birds. 

We’re in Wiltshire too (Upavon to be precise). As you say, plenty of red kites, also buzzards, kestrels, and the occasional sparrow hawk. The red kites are magnificent aren’t they?