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no. Wait. It’s a pigeon.
Nuthatch
Common woodpecker. Black, white and red one.
Coal tits
Blue tits
Great tits
Bluejays
Robins
We also have a regular visitor who isn't a bird but is a badger. We see it from time to time.
We have a family of Canada geese and also several herons, and ducks, Not unusual for the herons to take the young either, which isn't so good.
On the moors we also have grouse and pheasants, and thankfully not many/if any wankers with guns.
Since the WFH thing came in I've been able to see some fantastic wildlife in the garden from my office.
I particularly enjoy seeing the Woodpeckers and birds of prey (one swooped down and got a squirrel recently).
There's a Heron who sometimes pops into the garden for a minute or two before flying away.
Lots of Owls at Night too !
We often get Badgers in the garden at night and until the houses were built next door the other year we often had deer in the garden.
It's been known to have a new forest pony in the front garden from time to time too
During my WFH stints, watching this lot come into the feeders gives me a sense of enormous well-being (Parklife..... )
Blue tits
Great tits
Long tailed tits
Goldfinches
Robins
Blackbirds
Collared doves
Starlings
Crows
Magpies
Pigeons
Sparrows
Dunnocks
very odd Nuthatch
There's a pheasant shoot (huge / Arab owned) about a mile from me and the consequential Buzzards were commonplace........now moved on by very graceful Red Kites....hardly see a Buzzard now. I guess there's a needle about territories.
I do wish folks would stop encouraging Red Kites into gardens by feeding.
There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
kites
buzzards
green woodpeckers
pheasants
kestrels
bullfinches
sparrowhawks
jackdaws
rooks
stonechats
missal thrushes
… to the list.
Grab shot, not showing the other half of the gang that are on the feeders & in the shrubbery...
They have been scaring my chickens recently ( I'm just into Herts ) but no attack as yet although if we had chicks free ranging they would be on those in seconds i'm sure.
We get very diverse wild birds amongst the more unusual ,Parakeets, Kestrel, numeous woodpeckers of all types,ENGLISH partridge which is actually rare compared to the red legged French Partridge , a pair of Hawaian Geese which I know live in Golders Hill Park in NW 11 who by chance I saw on a pond in Highgate yesterday ( they seem to get around ) .
We have a few white Barn Owls which I see in the evening hunting the hedgerows but the most unusual I have seen was an huge Eagle Owl ( 10 years ago ) it had traces on it's legs so I can assume it was an escapee - it hung around for a few days.
We looked after 3 Rheas for a friend for a month but they don't count although I saw one of them chase a Fox .
See a lot of Herons fly over which my youngest daughter thought was a vulture !
There are buzzards over Clent so if we look in the right direction at the right time we can see them in the distance.
My office is almost surrounded by countryside but close to the M5 so Red Kites aren't uncommon. One day I was driving down the slip road onto the M5 and one flew across the front of the car, quite bizarre.
And another: the Tasmanian Native-hen, endemic flightless rails universally known as "turbo chooks" because they can run really fast (50km/h).
A young pair of these has just moved onto the property and taken up a territory on the edge of the dam. They get along fine with the ducks but are very feisty little things. A Great Cormorant landed here this week (a vastly bigger bird than any rail) and one of the turbo chooks promptly saw it off the property. (They do a sort of Bruce Lee thing with their feet - big vertical leap and zam!) They also see off the currawongs and ravens - anything which might take a fancy to their eggs or young.
Apparently Ravens are making a big comeback in SW England and not so unusual now
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.