What birds visit your garden?

The most common here are the house crow, Myna, Koel, Eagle, Kite, Parakeet, Pigeon, Crimson-breasted barbet(Coppersmith). There are also others - Hoopoe, Bats(small variety), owlets, Crow-pheasant or Coucal, Ibis, Kingfisher, Bulbul and Robin. The house sparrow is in some areas where there is peace. Due to the heavy traffic, they have moved away. A certain species of small bird also visit in the morning and evening, but I don't know its name. The most intelligent of all is the Crow.

Used to do garden survey for British Trust fro Ornithology, so have quite a list 40+ spp. Favourites long tailed tits and treecreeper. Also had a lesser spotted woodpecker (cute - the size of a sparrow) on my Onopordium giganteum drilling through the stems for the grubs inside.

What about mammals? i have Wood mouse, grey squirrel, Hedgehog, red fox and brown rat

Reptiles and amphibians? - common frog, smooth newt, slowworm and common lizard

Do you know what kind of eagle u see most often?

Not many have come into the gardens this year. My postage stamp garden backs onto woods and I regularly see or hear; Blackbrids, Song Thrush, Jay, Magpie, Rook, Raven, Jackdaw, Barn Owl, Sparrow (not too common), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Wood Pigeon and occasionally a Cuckoo. Foxes scream every night during the winter which is a bit eerie and There are squirrels all over the place.

We have chickadees, gold finches, blue jays, cardinals, tit mice, sparrows in at least 3 varieties, house finches, nuthatches, juncos, hairy woodpeckers, downy woodpeckers, red bellied woodpeckers and a very large piliated woodpecker who is chopping down a pear tree bit by bit, a sparrow hawk (kestrel) and a sharp shinned hawk, mourning doves and starlings just now. The crows and pigeons fly around behind the barn and the red tail hawk lives in the woods. In the summer it all changes.

There are red squirrels and chipmunks in the cedar break. A deer walked down in front of the barn the other morning and got barked at by our brave guard puppies for her pains. There are coyotes and foxes in the woods, rabbits all over, field mice in the basement and a black bear that occasionally makes an appearance running very quickly away from all human habitations.

the amphibians are all tucked up somewhere warm.

My critters are almost identical to Kathleen's. I live in NC, but up in the mountains so our climate is a bit cooler than most of the south.
Right now we are inundated with goldfinches, in their winter drab feathers. I enjoy seeing the Evening Grosbeaks when the weather gets warmer and also the return of our beloved Rufous-sided Towees.
We have a LOT of mountain streams here so we see the kingfishers a lot.
We also have Schmoos. Well that's what I call them, but they are actually mourning doves. They just remind me of the Schmoos that used to be in the Li'l Abner comic strip.

Robins (they never left) many cardinals, blue jays, crows and finches all crowd around the bird feeders on a daily basis. There are probably others, but my ability to recognize and distinguish between them is pretty limited.

Harakat, varikset, naakat, västäräkit, peipposet, punatulkut, punarinnat, pääskyset, varpuset, tikat, jne are pretty common here... =)



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Rats, bandicoots (a species of rodent almost as big as a normal cat), squirrels, frogs, chameleon, another similar kind- don't know its name, are some of the animals which are here.

Hummingbirds http://www.portalproductions.com/h/annas.htm stay around all year long. also Calif. quails http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i2940id.html - they come in groups...like soldier on a drill: from the tallest to the smallest in one straight line. i find them cute, but fast in movement too. they make funny sound like chicken.

Those links are great MVR thanks :)
Evert, Pleeease do you know the scientific names for the ones you have?? Don't know what any of them are :(

u're very welcome Philomel ;). love to share url so others can see what i am referring too. The pair of Anna's Hummingbird is a permanent resident to my area it seems. i was told, they suppose to leave for the winter, but year in, year out they are here. even in the cold winter months.

U're so lucky to have hummingbirds! Which flowers do they like?

They love the buddleia's & Salvia's specially. during the summer months they enjoy the oriental lilies and ginger plants. i see them roaming around the lavenders too!

Wow!! All i have is the occasional hummingbird hawkmoth on warm summer evenings - and that's an event. They like the stocks and nicotianas - anything smelly.

I'm a bird watcher, but just got my birdbook so don't know what all the scientific or "correct" names are for ours, but some I've noticed are mockingbirds, house (or barn?) wrens, red-headed woodpeckers, etc. There's a red-tailed hawk that hangs around a lot and sometimes I see a couple more join her (him?) ~ just love to see them soar. Last summer, we heard a hoot owl across the creek in our little barn over there ~ he talked to DH for hours every night while he was here. And barn owls! They're SOOOO cute! I've also seen a great horned owl or two out here. One set down in my yard on my sister's wedding day ~ sat there looking around as if he was telling us, "Calm down. She'll get married today whether you have a nervous breakdown or not. Just come watch me for a while and let the nervousness drain away..."

Ah, Wingnut, a wise bird! We have owls that chorus in the late winter from one woods to the other usually on a very frosty morning just before dawn. One winter we had a snowy owl sit on a fence post behind the house almost all day. It occasionally ruffled itself up. I guess it thought that was just as good a place as any other for a long nap. We haven't ever seen one since.

Cardinals, bluejays, starlings, mockingbirds, sparrows, finches, woodpeckers, hummingbirds (about 5 different markings), .......squirrels, moles, and the occasional skunk!!

"eyes"

I get Eastern Bluebirds, Mourning Doves, Chickadees, hummingbirds in the summer, Red-winged blackbirds and House swallows. And an occasional crow. :-)

Around my bird feeder I have chickadees, Stellers blue jays,
Oregon race juncos, Red breasted Nuthatcher, European starling, Song sparrow. Just love to watch them every day.

I feel like a pauper where the birds are concerned compared to you all. At this time of year, we have our pair of red-headed woodpeckers, nuthatches, lots of chickadees, blue jays, and a crow or two (they come to the compost pile). Occasionally I think I see the phoebe that nests over one of my windows, too. But that is all!
Oh, well, this summer I'll have to keep track of what comes.

philomel, I have no idea of the botanical names... this is how I feel when I see only english names, hahaha.

Anyway, I think that punarinta is robin, harakka is magpie, and.... tikka is woodpecker.

Maybe I should have a little practice witht these english names?

Evert, thanks*. Are your robins singing well? they are here.
We have toooo many magpies, they're everywhere. Appreciate you practising the english names - i've no chance with the finnish ones LOL!!

Hmm.... we don't have many robins here, haven't seen them since autumn. =)

These come to the birdfeeders and gardens: Mourning doves, cardinals, goldfinch, tufted titmouse, house wren, blue jay, an occasional starling, sparrows, chickadees, red-bellied woodpecker,juncos, ruby-throated hummingbirds. Once an indigo bunting came. Once an evening grosbeak came.

Also, these are in the garden and yard, but don't come to the birdfeeders: northern mockingbirds, robins, an occasional squirrel.