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mine are collated via AI so I haven't necessarily physically seen all of these, however I have manually weeded out some of the more suss ones (our chickens can apparently do very passable impressions of a lot of other birds, including ravens 😂) but I've generally found that if it assigns a detection a high probability (ie. 90%+) then it probably is accurate. 38 unique (maybe 😃)

Eurasian Magpie (734)
European Robin (627)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (597)
Herring Gull (413)
House Sparrow (381)
Common Wood-Pigeon (152)
Eurasian Jackdaw (129)
Carrion Crow (115)
European Greenfinch (65)
Eurasian Bullfinch (22)
Black Redstart (17)
Eurasian Jay (16)
Gray Heron (16)
Water Rail (13)
Eurasian Blue Tit (10)
Great Tit (6)
Rook (6)
Common Buzzard (5)
Eurasian Blackbird (5)
Eurasian Blackcap (5)
European Goldfinch (5)
Little Egret (5)
Mallard (4)
Black-headed Gull (3)
Canada Goose (3)
Dunlin (3)
Eurasian Curlew (3)
Eurasian Green Woodpecker (3)
Eurasian Linnet (3)
Eurasian Oystercatcher (3)
Cattle Egret (2)
Common Redshank (2)
Common Chaffinch (2)
Common Ringed Plover (2)
Eurasian Siskin (2)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk (1)
Redwing (1)
Rose-ringed Parakeet (1)

Just as an aside, what happened to the term twitcher? I thought bird watchers were twitchers??

Ohhh, we do keep a garden list for our local RSPB group's monitoring survey. We only count stuff that lands, rather than what we see from home - shame as I've seen kestrel,  Red Kite and just once, a long way away through the 'scope, a pair of Hen Harrier doing a skydance. Either @Bunnyhop or I will add our list later

 thought bird watchers were twitchers??

No, a twitcher refers to a certain type of birdwatcher who is prepared to go to great lengths and travel considerable distances to see reported rare birds. Most ofus just like watcing stuff that happens to be around wherever we are and are very happy if we something that's not common where we usually are, even it's common for where we see it

blimey long lists with no Swifts, Swallows or House Martins

We only count stuff that lands, rather than what we see from home

We've fed Red Kites but they don't really land 🙂

blimey long lists with no Swifts, Swallows or House Martins

they don't tend to land in gardens 🙁

Swifts perhaps but Swallows and House martin nest on houses and in garden sheds, But then again Buzzards ^^^ are unlikely to plonk down on your lawn.

This list DOES include flyovers I'm afraid - it's 'birds seen from our garden'.

46 species, house on the edge of Sheffield. I reckon 7 of those didn't land.

Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Robin
Blackbird
Thrush
Dunnock
Wren
Magpie
Wood Pigeon
Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon
Collared Dove
Nuthatch
Treecreeper
Crow
Jay
Bullfinch
Siskin
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Brambling
Reed Bunting
Heron
Black-headed Gull
Goldcrest
Starling
Swift
Swallow
House Martin
Chiffchaff
Blackcap
Sparrowhawk
Tawny Owl
Buzzard
Kestrel
Osprey
Fieldfare
Redwing
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Mallard
Ring-necked Parakeet
Jackdaw
Pink-footed goose

I love looking at birds and used  to consider myself a bit of an ornithologist back in the day. That was until it was pointed out to me that ornithologists prefer the feathered varieties.

However I'll still get the binoculars out if I see a nice pair of great tits.

Slightly more serious than my post above... accurate as it may be...

We've recently(ish) moved house and then had building work done so haven't had time to encourage birds into the garden, though as we're now in a much greener area we should get a nice amount!

I do have a list of birds seen in the small local park (Clowes Park, anyone know it?) which got into the mid 40s I think. Will try to list it later, if that's allowed here 😉

added bonellis eagle to it a couple days ago!

2 Peregrines.  I can watch them from my study window while I "work".   My list kind of stops there 😁

I so I haven’t necessarily physically seen all of these,

i doubt very much that you have seen Water Rail,Cattle Egret,or Curlew, for a start, in your garden. Theyre pretty hard to see anywhere

observed in the garden, we have a couple of large trees too, so anything that lands on that....plus the canal is at the bottom of my garden, so that counts too..

the North glasgow lists is such:

great tit

coal tit

long tailed tit (flying lolipop)

blue tit

tree creeper

nuthatch

goldfinch

chaffinch

bullfinch

chiffchaf

blackcap

wood pigeon

feral pigeon

dunnock

sparrow

robin

Parakeet

jackdaw

crow

backbird

rook

woodpecker

kingfisher

magpie

coot

moorhen

mallard duck

merganser

swan

goose (not sure what, maybe canada)

cormorant

tawny owl

barn owl

common buzzard

sparrowhawk

kestrel

nervous cats.

I've forgotten a few I think.

i doubt very much that you have seen Water Rail,Cattle Egret,or Curlew, for a start, in your garden. Theyre pretty hard to see anywhere

Ones that have landed.

Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Great Wagtail
Robin
Blackbird
Thrush
Dunnock
Wren
Magpie
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Nuthatch
Treecreeper
Crow
Rook
Jay
Bullfinch
Siskin
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Goldcrest
Starling
Blackcap
Sparrowhawk
Tawny Owl
Red Kite
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Jackdaw
Pheasant

(by detecting bird song heard from outdoor cameras

Thats interesting.
Im envious really

but I do have red kites picking chicken off the shed roof

Ill need to get my list updated but highlights this week

Brambling 

Redwing

Redpoll

Red kite

Grey wagtail

Off the top of my head,
In the back garden
House sparrow
Dunnock
Robin
Great tit
Blue tit
Coal tit
Gold finch
Wren
Black bird
Starling
Magpie
Crow
Jackdaw
Sparrowhawk
Herring gull
Black headed gull
Oystercatchers
Willow warbler
(I've heard curlew, amongst coastal places I've seen them in the Pentlands and Silverknowes)

I'vehad curlew in the garden, there are usually a good few pairs breeding locally in the summer.  Sea eagle has fown over plenty of times and reputedly tried to nest locally.

Great tit

blue tit

coal tit

house sparrow

tree sparrow

green finch

siskin

redpoll (I think)

gold finch (one or two a year)

robin

blackbird

fieldfare

fieldfare

pied wagtail

magpie

hooded crow

jay (never seen one alive, found one dead on terrace)

pheasant

kestrel

oystercatcher

lapwing

A waxwing , once

And from my window

barn owl (often in daylight)

tawny owl

cormorant

grey heron

swans

migrating geese

full suite winter duckes - eider, scaup, etc. merganser and smew.

cuckoo

Off  the top of my head

Landed/feeders:
Wood pigeon
Feral pigeon
Collared dove
Robin
Dunnock
Hoose sparrow
Goldcrest
Blackbird
Redwing
Wren
Sparrowhawk
Magpie
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Blue tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Long Tailed tit
Blackcap.
Flyovers:
Peregrine
Grey Heron
Mallard
Swift
Red kite
Black headed gull
Herring gull
Lesser black backed gull
Buzzard
Carrion craw
Jackdaw
Pheasant.
Heard:
Tawny Owl
Think that's it. Not incredible but not too shabby for a suburb of Notts.

Observed in garden (*from):
Blue tit
Marsh tit
Long tailed tit
Great tit
Coal tit
House spog
Tree spog
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Lesser redpoll
Siskin
Bullfinch
Great spot woodpecker
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush
Mistle thrush*
Spoghawk
Kestrel*
Merlin*
Buzzard*
Peregrine*
Goshawk*
Red kite*
Osprey*
Nutchatch
Tree creeper
Pigeon
Collared dove
Stock dove
Woodpig
Lapwing*
Curlew*
Snipe*
Quail*
Pheasant
Black-head gull*
LBBG*
GBBG*
Herring gull*
Starling
Reed bunting
Crow
Jackdaw
Jay*
Raven*
Rook*
Mute swan*
Mallard*
Heron*
Gt Egret*
La'll Egret*
Teal
Pink foot*
Whooper*
Black-tail godwit*
Snipe*
Dunnock
Wren
Swallow*
House Martin*
Sand Martin*
Swift*

Redwing*

Fieldfare*

Goldcrest

Chiffchaff

Willow warbler*

Lesser whitethroat*

Whitethroat*

Blackcap*

Garden warbler*

Tawny owl*

Barn owl*

There's more in my book, but I can't be arsed getting it. One I am gutted to miss was a white-tailed eagle that I would have seen had I been in the kitchen and not on a stupid teleconference.

Unfortunately I don’t have a list for my garden but do have a 27 year old list for the three fields I have been walking my dogs since we moved here. The rarest being an Osprey.
The most unusual bird I have seen in the garden was probably a Hoopoe in 2002 or a Waxwing in 2005.

Plenty here to see with highlight are the occasional white tailed eagle, usually being mobbed by buzzards, hooded crows or ravens. I’ve also seen hen harriers and peregrines going past

A pair of hooded crows nested in the neighbour’s tree and would come down in the morning to see if we’d tipped out any dead mice from the bucket trap in the polydome. Buzzards roost on the peak of our roof and swoop down on unsuspecting field voles below.

I’ve stepped outside to have a barn owl just clear my head and another time a sparrowhawk flew under my arm.

Full disclosure, I haven’t sighted all of these, but it’s included in the details of the conservation agreement we have with our local council. The previous owners were a bit more active in this space!<br />There’s another list of mammals and also flora.
Australian Magpie - Australian Brush Turkey - Australian Hobby – Australian King Parrot – Australian Magpie-lark – Australian Owlet-nightjar – Australian white ibis – Australian Wood Duck – Australasian Grebe – Azure Kingfisher – Baillon's Crake – Banded Lapwing – Barking Owl – Barn Owl – Barred Cuckoo-shrike – Bar-shouldered Dove – Black-faced cuckoo-shrike – Black-faced Monarch – Black-shouldered Kite – Blue-faced Honeyeater – Brown Cuckoo-dove – Brown Falcon – Brown gerygone – Brown Goshawk – Brown Honeyeater – Brown Quail –<br />Brown Songlark – Brown Thornbill –<br />Brush Bronzewing – Brush Cuckoo –<br />Eastern Whipbird – Eastern Yellow Robin – Emerald Dove – Eurasian Coot – Fairy Martin – Fan-tailed Cuckoo – Figbird – Forest Kingfisher – Fork-tailed Swift – Galah – Glossy Black-cockatoo – Golden Whistler – Golden-headed Cisticola – Great Cormorant – Great Egret – Green Catbird – Grey Butcherbird – Grey Fantail - Grey Goshawk – Grey Shrike-thrush – Grey Teal – Hardhead – Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo – Intermediate Egret – Jacky Winter – King Quail –<br />King Parrot Large-billed Scrubwren – P<br />Laughing Kookaburra- Leaden Flycatcher- Lewin's Honeyeater –<br />Noisy Friarbird- Noisy Miner - Nutmeg Mannikin – Olive-backed Oriole – Oriental Cuckoo – Pacific Baza – Pacific Black Duck – Painted Button-quail – Painted Snipe- Pale-headed Rosella – Pallid Cuckoo – Peaceful Dove- Peregrine Falcon – Pheasant Coucal – Pied Butcherbird – Pied Currawong – Powerful Owl – L Purple Swamphen - Rainbow Bee-eater – Rainbow Lorikeet – Red-backed Fairy-wren – Red-browed Firetail – Red-browed treecreeper – Restless Flycatcher- Richard's Pitpit – Rose Robin –<br />Rose-crowned Fruit-dove - Royal Spoonbill – Rufous Fantail – Rufous songlark –<br />Superb Fruit-Dove – Swamp Harrier – Tawny Frogmouth – Tawny Grassbird – Topknot Pigeon – Torresian Crow – Tree Martin – Varied Sitella – Varied Triller – Variegated Fairy-wren – Wompoo Pigeon – Wedge-tailed Eagle – Weebill – Welcome Swallow – Whistling Kite – White Faced Heron – White-bellied cuckoo-shrike White-breasted Woodswallo White-browed Scrubwren – White-browed woodswallow White-eared Monarch – White-headed Pigeon – White-naped honeyeater – White-necked Heron – White-throated Gerygone – White-throated Honeyeater<br />White-throated Needletail – White-throated Nightjar- White-throated Tree-creeper - Willie Wagtail –
Buff-banded rail Buff-rumped thornbill – Bush Hen – Bush thick-knee – Cattle Egret – Channel-billed Cuckoo – Chestnut Breasted Mannikin – Cicadabird – Collared Sparrowhawk – Common Bronzewing – Common Koel – Crested Pigeon Crested Shriketit – Crimson Rosella – Darter – Dollarbird – Double-barred Finch – Dusky Honeyeater – Dusky Moorhen – Dusky Woodswallow – Eastern Spinebill -<br />Lewin's rail – Little Black Cormorant – Little Bronze-cuckoo- Little button-quail – Little Eagle – Little Egret – Little Friarbird – Little Grassbird – Little Lorikeet – Little Pied Cormorant – Little Shrike-thrush – Little Wattlebird – Little Woodswallow – Masked Lapwing – Masked Owl – Marbled Frogmouth – Mistletoe bird – Nankeen Kestrel – Nankeen night heron –<br />New Holland Honeyeater – Noisy Pitta -<br />Rufous Whistler – Satin Bowerbird – Satin Flycatcher – Scaly-breasted Lorikeet – Scarlet Honeyeater – Shining Bronze-cuckoo – Shining Flycatcher – Silvereye – Singing bush-lark – Sooty Owl – Southern Boobook Owl – Spangled Drongo - Spectacled Monarch- Spotted Harrier- Spotted Pardalote- Square-tailed Kite – Straw-necked Ibis- Striated Pardolate- Striated thornbill- Stubble Quail-<br />Sulphur-crested Cockatoo -<br />Wonga Pigeon – Yellow thornbill- Yellow-billed Spoonbill – Yellow-faced Honeyeater – Yellow-rumped Thornbill – Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo

And ... something not on the list that i have seen two of is Brahminy Kite

October's list (garden visits only).
Blackbird
Bluetit
Bullfinch
Chaffinch
Coal tit
Dunnock
Feral pigeon
Goldfinch
Great tit
Greenfinch
House sparrow
Magpie
Nuthatch
Robin
Rook
Sparrowhawk
Treecreeper
Wren

All from a medium sized garden containing trees, hedges, pond, wild area, veg patch, dead wood, bug hotel, mini wild meadow and bee friendly flower borders, on a housing estate (near farmland).

@alric you can use the same AI detection if you download the free Merlin Bird ID app and leave it running on your phone while you’re in the garden!

Once saw a little Auk on the side of the farm drive on the way to school (long time ago). When we came home after school we found it again, only by now it was dead! We took it to the national museum of Wales and they had it stuffed and was on display for many years as a very rare visitor.

you can use the same AI detection if you download the free Merlin Bird ID app and leave it running on your phone while you’re in the garden!

I find Merlin utterly infuriating and erroneous. It either makes up birds or doesn't identify them. I've had a roving tit flock with seven species contact calling all around me and it detected the robin that was singing and a Canada goose.

I tend to be able to identify the birds quicker and more consistently than Merlin. That being said, it can be useful, but just use it with an element of caution. Hawfinches appear everywhere and it's usually a robin contact calling.

I find Merlin utterly infuriating and erroneous.

The only time merlin has ever shown me a hawfinch was when i was stood watching a hawfinch, have you got the European bird pack installed? People often complain and they are running libraries for other regions

Herring gulls

Eider ducks,

Goosanders,

Cormorants

thats basically what i see from my window - urban river near the sea with very little plant cover for wee birds

Walk a little way up the river and the habitat changes with lots of small birds including suprising numbers of wrens

not seen one but we get these behind the house sometimes...

and these are also now very common in the field behind the house (for some reason they seem to be booming locally, I did wonder if it's related to the reintroduction of the Red Kite and it's impact on Covid numbers)

Dailly on the feeder,
Sparrows
Robin
Pigeons
Doves
Chaffinch

Most weeks,
Jackdaws
Blackbirds
Woodpeckers

Occasionally,
Crows
Magpies

^^^^^^

I forgot Starlings on the daily list!

We're in South Worcestershire with a brook at the end of our garden and open farmland beyond that, its a pretty poor mix of birds for the location . We and at least 4 neighbours feed all year round.

The birds have been flocking into the garden during the last 6 days of this cold spell. They're getting through 2 feeders worth of sunflower hearts per day.
I'm now adding starling to my list.

Just like CheezybeanZ I forgot to put starlings on my list. Sadly a very infrequent visitor, in fact I can't remember the last time I saw one in the area.  We do apparently have green  parakeets knocking about not half a mile away but I'm yet to see them.

Don't keep a list but here are some recent visitors, either touching down or invading our airspace. Suburban/inner city garden.

Blue tit
Long tailed tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Goldcrest
Dunnock
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Sparrow
Robin
Blackbird
Magpie
Pigeon
Collared dove
Mallard
Crow
Jay
Black backed gull
Commom gull
Red kite
Nuthatch
Greater spotted woodpecker
Swallow
Heron (for the pond frogs)

And the local escaped White cheeked turaco who has been knocking around for the past 8 years and seems to be enjoying his freedom.

Had a snipe today which was unexpected 

http://www.severnsidebirds.co.uk/index.html

Enjoyed a handful of big blackcock after skiing the last couple of evenings. Happy ending to the day.

A few greyhens too.

My home list - 66 I think. I have a much longer one somewhere for a Summer I spent in Southern Africa a long time ago, I think I got to 225 or something like that. 

Green woodpecker

Blackbird 

Pheasant 

Wood Pigeon 

Robin 

Blue tit 

Great tit 

Coal tit 

Goldfinch 

Wren 

Chaffinch 

Buzzard 

Kestrel 

Carrion crow 

Fieldfare 

Pheasant 

Herring gull 

Treecreeper  

Pied wagtail 

Tawny Owl 

Song thrush 

Bullfinch 

Redwing 

Nuthatch 

Jackdaw 

Feral pigeon 

Sparrowhawk 

Starling 

Magpie 

Rook 

Dunnock 

House Sparrow 

Jay 

Spotted flycatcher 

Great spotted woodpecker 

Linnet  

Blackcap 

Greenfinch 

Wheatear 

Yellowhammer 

Redpoll 

Marsh tit 

Long tailed tit 

Stonechat 

Greenfinch 

Brambling 

Skylark 

Collared dove 

Woodcock 

Golden plover 

Red Legged Partridge 

Lapwing 

Chiffchaff 

Goldcrest

Willow warbler 

Red kite 

Goldcrest

Snipe

Raven

Mandarin duck

Willow tit 

Peregrine Falcon

Barn owl

European Swallow

House Martin

Nightjar 

We had a woodcock fly into the window a little while back. It looked to be a goner but started to make a recovery. We took it to the local sanctuary and they told me it was fit and released the following day. Such a beautiful bird.

True to their nature i have had huge flocks of fieldfares dropping by as they stay 1 step ahead of the cold weather. They also get to feast on the bountiful haw berries on my hedges and the worms on the wet meadows. 

We do apparently have green  parakeets knocking about not half a mile away but I’m yet to see them.

I was in Regents Park, London, a few months ago and heard lots of odd squawking from the trees, which was a small flock of parakeets. They are surprisingly difficult to see when they are in a summer tree canopy, even if you know exactly where they are.

I don't make a list but my wife does, she's got 93 species on it so far this year. CBA typing it out 🤣

It not a garden list, just what we see when we're out and about, largely Angus. More interesting/obvious ones include, osprey, red kite, little and great egret, great spotted woodpecker, puffin. But there's a whole mix of sea birds, wetland, woodland and moorland birds.

Just been out for a local wander now and saw a mix of tits, firecrests, tree creeper,field fares and redwings, red kite, buzzard, mute swans, goosander, coot, mallard, Cormorant, as well as crows, pigeons etc.

Has anyone seen any Waxwings in their area? Big flocks have come over from the Scandinavian side of Europe.

Just go to the nearest super market with planters and red berries, that's where the wax wings show up first.

Loads in Sheffield. Flock of over 100 on Manchester road for the last month or so  <br /><br />

My garden list is not too bad, and only includes species that have landed in the garden or our trees. Plenty of others seen from the house, with Pink-footed Geese the most obvious at this time of year. <br /><br />
Swallow

Blue tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Crow
Rook
Woodpigeon
Great spotted woodpecker
Pied wagtail
Robin
Chaffinch
Tree sparrow
Dunnock
Blackbird
Greenfinch
Wren
Feral pigeon
Jackdaw
Yellowhammer
Starling
Siskin
Goldfinch
Linnet
Brambling
Song thrush
House sparrow
Lesser black backed gull
Herring gull
Treecreeper
Reed bunting
Lesser Redpoll
Collared dove
Magpie
Willow warbler
Mistle thrush
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Pheasant
Bullfinch
Yellow browed warbler
Goldcrest
Long tailed tit
Whitethroat
Buzzard
House martin
Grey Wagtail
Blackcap
Grey Partridge
Fieldfare
Redwing
Long-eared Owl
Stock dove
Spotted flycatcher
I also run Aberdeenshire Bird Tours as a bit of sideline so if anyone is up this way and fancies a trip out let me know. Can even combine it with some cycling. <br /><br />

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There's been loads of waxwings in our area apparently, but I've not seen them yet despite the berries being in abundance near us.

Wow TLR.  Great photos!

Bunnyhop - give @waxwingsUK a follow on twitter. They are pretty good with updates.  Lots in Hyde today - locations here;

https://manchesterbirding.activeboard.com/mobile.spark?p=topic&topic=22704702

@beagle we drove out to Hyde on Saturday afternoon but it was such awful weather it was dark by the time we got there at 2.30

Even more annoyingly, i worked in the building between the motorbike shop and the bus station for the last 11 years. We moved to Manchester city centre last month...

(We did have waxwings in our car park tree a few years ago)

Saw a kingfisher on the Tay yesterday. I’d forgotten how beautiful that flash of azure blue is. Stunning!

Ahhh.  Saturday was grotty.  I may drive through at some point tomorrow, if time allows.  Crazy about working there for so long. Typical.   My best workplace spot was a regular black redstart on the green roof directly outside my window in Canary Wharf, twelve stories up. Gutted when I had to move to another desk! 

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Had 40 the other week in Liverpool

I don’t get a huge variety in my garden, but lately my regular visitors are:

goldfinches

sparrows,

pigeons 

blue tits

great tits

long-tailed tits

coal tits

marsh tits

robin

blackbirds

wren

starlings*

There’s a stream down the road that runs through a culvert, and walking into town the other day, I usually look downstream to see how much water was in the brook, and I noticed a flash of white about 50 meters or so, behind a lot of shrubs. It was difficult to make out until it moved into the middle of the stream, and it was a great white egret!

*Starlings. I’ve been putting food out for years, and for ages their numbers were pretty low, in the teens-twenties. Of late, the numbers coming into my garden have been increasing, but it’s so difficult to judge, because the noisy little wretches don’t keep still. <br />A week or so back, I could see movement out of the corner of my eye, and it was the starlings using the bird bath out front. They were flying up to join others on the tv aerial over the road, and the robin took over. Then a much larger flock of starlings came over and were joined by those over the road. I had my phone handy and took some photos of the big flock, and I was able to count them - there’s 141 birds in the flock, which is a big increase over the last few years.

I haven’t seen any kites around my location recently, and the ravens haven’t been around either.

Well after almost 57 years on this planet as a keen naturalist I finally saw a Kingfisher yesterday. Beautiful plumage. On the canal in Risca at the bottom of the new trails if anyone is ever there.