A garden in suburbia!

[Nuthatch]

I have a "medium" sized garden about 150ft long and 40ft wide. I live in a quite wooded area near to a racecourse. The view from my garden consists of a mixture on mature large trees, 5 of which are very old and big Oak Trees. I'm sure this is why I get a good selection of birds.

My full "garden" list is:

Regular visitors (21)
Chaffinch
Collard Dove
Dunnock
Gold Finch
Green Finch
House Sparrow
Magpie
Ring-necked Parakeet
Feral Pigeon
Wood Pigeon
Robin
Sparrowhawk (occasionally)
Starling
Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit (occasionally)
Green Woodpecker
Gt. Spotted Woodpecker
Blackbird
Jay

Occasional Visitors (5)
Crow
Nuthatch
Grey Heron
Song Thrush
Wren

Very occasional visitors (once or twice at the most) (4)
Mistle Thrush
Goldcrest
Pied Wagtail (had one this last week)
Grey Wagtail

Seasonal visitors (4)
Blackcap
Fieldfare (frist one of this Autumn on 4 Oct 07)
Redwing (first one of this Autumn on 6 Nov 07)
Siskin (not seen any since Feb 2006)

[barn owl]

A good list of birds nuthatch, i havent seen a blackcap for years.
owl.

[Nuthatch]

Hi Barn Owl - haven't seen one yet this season; but I'm crossing my fingers.

[oldtwitcher]

Interesting to see the Ringed- Neck Parakeet listed as one of the birds that visit your garden.
With a bit of luck they might even make it to the South Coast.
Peter the old twitcher

[Nuthatch]

Peter - you never know! They're multiplying in such numbers here in Surrey and the London area that at some time they will have to spread out.

Here's a taster of what you might expect.

[Jimbo]

Can you point some Northwards?

Green with envy!!

Jimbo

[Nuthatch]

Can you point some Northwards?

Green with envy!!

Jimbo

I'll do my best Jimbo!

[70007]

A good list of birds nuthatch, i havent seen a blackcap for years.
owl.

My almost winter resident male blackcap this year seems to have developed a liking for hanging on the peanut feeder. I suppose he has been watching the sparrows and decided to copy them.

[Nuthatch]

Hi Barn Owl - haven't seen one yet this season; but I'm crossing my fingers.

So pleased to report that a female Blackcap started visiting last Friday - yippee. It was still there yesterday but I've been out (shopping - groan) all day today. Hope it's going to be around for a bit.

[Morgannon]

Parakeets are in the North-East now too, we quite often get a couple visititing our feeders during the summer.

[Nuthatch]

Hi Morgannon

They do seem to be spreading North. How far is "North East"?
(If you're happy to tell me this - please pm me if you don't want your location revealed)

I'm doing a very amateur study of the missing Parakeet roost in Surrey!

[Morgannon]

I live in Stockton-on-Tees, just across the river from Middlesbrough(should be well known due to the Middlesbrough Football Club).

Though i'm not sure if they're from a roost, we quite often get random escaped birds. Usually Budgerigars though last summer we looked out the window and got the suprise of seeing a Mackaw on the feeders. No kidding, heh. It sure suprised us, hehe.