What birds are you all getting in your gardens at the moment?
And do you feed them?
We get lots of Greenfinches. I've counted up to 14 some mornings and often there are 3 or 4 on each of the feeders at a time. They only eat Black sun flower seeds and can empty a reasonable sized feeder in a couple of days.
We now have 3 feeders out for them, and it seems different groups use different feeders, with them fighting if they try to use each others.
We also have some pretty Gold finches whith love nyjer (niger) seed, although how they eat those little tiny seeds is mad. They even open the seeds in they beaks.
We also get blackbirds and robins, sparrows, a couple of ring neck doves and one big old wood pigeon.
Occasionally we do get some others such as blue tits, long tailed tits, black caps and a few other finches, but generally it is mostly the Greenfinches all day, and the gold finches visiting a couple of times during the day.
Yesterday whilst gardening they were complaining about me being there. The green finches were causing a lot of noise. The black bird got quite brave and was hopping around on the grass eating bits not far from me. And even a Gold finch went into one of the feeders while I was in the garden, which they haven't done before.
When we first started the garden and tried to attract some birds we couldn't get any to visit the garden, so it shows you have to establish a food source and just be patient. They will eventually come.
We now even have some binoculars specifically to watch the birds in the garden. How sad is that? Getting old...