Vocal Voices

Do you put out bird seed and fat balls this time of year in your garden - and if so, what birds do you attract?

We don't get a lot of different varieties here - we just get blackbirds and thrushes, a robin and occasionally a wren, and a phalanx of fat pigeons, who waddle up and down the lawn for all the world like coppers in a TV murder mystery show, quartering the grounds for evidence and clues ...

There are great tits in the oak trees, but they rarely come down into the garden. And we never see any sparrows.

We get the same birds as you, Os., plus blue tits.

Last Summer, on one occasion, we even had a Jay and a Heron.

Iv got a resident blackbirds who fights other blackbirds
See a lone magpie sometime s


and doves and this winter a robin all the time
Put bread out and water and fat balls when I remember to buy them

Magpies and robins seem to be the birds we get in the garden In town it is pigeons and the all-pervading seagulls

I only put stuff out if it's frosty or snowing, and then it's fat balls and bird seed that I buy from the supermarket

Blackbirds, thrushes, sparrows, robins, collared doves, magpies, a few finches and crows.

It is not a garden, but the green surrounding the houses, so there is plenty of room for all.

Anyone who puts out bird feeders has to be canny with siting them otherwise the grey squirrels have a field day. Cheryl, a few doors down, has threaded her washing line through two big plastic trays, one either side of the bird feeder, to stop them and it is hilarious watching them try to get past.

Our garden is quite busy at the moment with a number of different birds.
This week we have seen the usual blackbirds, robins, sparrows and blue tits, but also long tailed tits, a wren, a thrush and a red-spotted woodpecker

All of those plus quite a few wood pigeons.