Birds
Update 19.05.23
Update 12.05.23
Songthrush ruling the roost at the waterbowls

Robin collecting lunch

Ah caught again taking sticks

I spy with my little eye

Bathing time

Blackbird photo bombing bath time for Long tailed tit and companions

Male wood pigeon trying to impress a female wood pigeon

Still trying

Blackbird collecting nesting material

Update 05.05.23
Stick collector

Now where is my tree?

NO not the right stick

Oh there is the stick collector again

Robin's bath time

Snack time

Baby Robin

Baby Robin 2

Clever birds
Update 28.04.23
Robin invited a bird friend for a pool party

Greenfinch

Sourcing some sticks

Wood pigeon yoga or maybe not?

Update 21.04.23
What is my best side?

Browsing for food

Continue to browse

Little blue tit

Song thrush having a deep hard think about what to do next

Magpie checking the water quality

Trespassing, owner not happy

Stubborn Wood pigeon duo, still bickering

Nearly blended in there

Little snack to keep you going

Update 17.03.23
The robin and the worm

Don't blink or the Song thrush is gone

Tug of survival

Bite size bits

Dunnock

The Chaffinches

Will all his hard work be rewarded?

Redwing close up

Great tit looking for its next meal

Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Great tit loving the waterbowls

Update 03.03.23
Wood pigeon patrol is here again

Looks like a thorough ground inspection, what will be the outcome?

Wood pigeon wondering to continue with the inspection

Oh yes apparently they are still continuing the inspection

Songthrush

Redwing

Great tit feeding

Enough food around for this Great tit

Close up Greenfinch

Never too late for a bath

Update 10.02.23
What is on the Redwings menu can you see?

Blackbird looking for food

This water tastes like more

Can you find the long tailed tit?

Bird pool party all are welcome

Robin practising its dance routine

Nuthatch bathing first time this has been seen on the camera

Great tits also must look their best, so it's bath time

These Blue tits have bathed so long the water has run out

Update 03.02.23
Fighting Great tits

Great tits looking for food

Very well camouflaged Chaffinch

Chaffinches fighting and Redwings bathing

Different bathing styles

Goldfinches, Great tit and Blue tits

Update 27.01.23
Goldfinch, Green finch and wren, don't blink or you'll miss the wren

Important feather maintenance

Icy conditions in the waterbowls

'Ice' pie

Great tit looking for food

Redwings taking over the waterbowls

Song thrush versus Redwing

Little Chaffinch

Update 13.01.23
Tensions are high, when food supply is low, especially if you a very territorial bird like a robin

Another way of opening your lunchbox

Great tit looking for water, unfortunately its frozen

Please behave, wood pigeon patrol

Wren having a bath, look how small it is

Goldfinches

Great tit looking for food, can you see what it is eating, what do think

Happy little Robin

All that leaf turning pays off with food for our Redwings

Green woodpecker has found the waterbowls, look at its impressive bill

Wood pigeon seems to have lost its patrol buddy

Hidden treasures between the leaves for our Greenfinches

Synchronized bathing of the Blackbird and the Greenfinch

Bullfinch, Goldfinches and Great tit

Very little Gold crest flying in

Timid Collared Dove

Update 16.12.22
So much bird activity, all trying to find food. All the movement looks a bit like an ants' nest

Redwing looking for food

Chaffinch

Songthrush deciding on what to do next

Redwing stand off

The blackbird, redwing and the robin

Blackbird having a bath

Cute little wren having a bath

Wood pigeon patrol

Redwing having a clear out

Update 09.12.22
Blackbird

Redwing looking for breakfast

A very happy blackbird having a whale of time in his bath

Robin bathing

Bath time for birds?

Update 02.12.22
Lots of chaffinches

Great tit

Good catch Mr Robin, lots of protein in that worm

Update 25.11.22
Female chaffinch

Shake, shake, shake

Update 18.11.22
Song thrush thinking about what to do next

Great tits looking for food

What food are they looking for?

You can't eat the camera Great tit

Update 11.11.22
A dule (group) of Collared Doves

Blackbird looking for food, but what is it looking for?

Update 04.11.22
Why are there leaves in my drink?

Female blackbird trying to get a drink

Finally alone to enjoy a bath

What has gotten into this bird

When one bird thinks he's boss of the waterbowls

The songthrush and the blackbird (click on the link)
Long tailed tits, Great tits, Blue tits and more (click the link below)
Winter migrant has returned, the Redwing. First one of this season

Squabbling greenfinches and two more bird, but do you know their names? (click the link)
Update 21.10.22
Scruffi looking Woodpigeon

Is the water any good today?

Goldcrest, the lightest bird in the UK

Magpie drinking

Better look around you before you take a sip Mr Greenfinch

Little Wren, slightly bigger than the Goldcrest

Nuthatch looking for some insects in tree bark

Black bird competing with Great Tit for the waterbowls

Seeing double

Dunnock

Robin having a wash

Update 14.10.22
All birds great and small

Little dunnock

Some rough looking blackbirds having a bath

Early morning Black cap having a drink

Tit birds everywhere, but do you know which one is which

Chiffchaff and Great Tit

Young woodpigeon

The Great Spotted Woodpeckers is back

The Robin and the young Woodpigeon

Goldfinches

Update 30.09.22
Special visitor, the Great Spotted Woodpecker

Thirsty Bullfinch

Black cap being scared away by Great Tit and Blue Tit

Blue Tit having a super great time in the bath, happily splashing away

You think off having a nice and quiet drink then this happens

Can you spot the Nuthatch amongst all the other Great Tits, Blue Tits and Long tailed Tits?

Update 23.09.22
Hi

Yes, I'm a black bird

What is our Great tit eating?

Intruder?

Oops caught me again, I just need more sticks

Not again

Little wren

Update 22.07.22
Little wren paid us a visit

Water supply is terrible today

A hot and bothered blue tit

Long tailed tits and blue tits, quenching their thirst

Some serious Long Tailed Tit fighting going on, wood pigeons has given up

Some one stepped out of the bed with the wrong foot

Tempers are running high

Update 15.07.22
Robin at the bath

Juvenile wood pigeon

Woodpigeons fighting for dominance

Still fighting

Enough is enough

What a poser

Bath time!

Great tit making the most of the water that is left

I don't get it, there is always water here.

I like to put in a complaint about the lack of water

Update 01.07.22
We are kind and gentle here, please stop

Oopsie, only taking a stick to build my nest

Free shower for the great tits

Collecting nesting material

Update 24.06.22
The wren and the blackbird

A very unusual visitor the Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff call
Are all my feathers still there?

Little robin

Just enjoying a relaxing birdbath, this family of Great tits turn up

Juvenile robins having a bath

Update 17.06.22
Nobody looking, then I can have a quick wash

Oh no, Mr Robin the water has evaporated

Baby robin joining parent at the waterbowl

Good catch

Female blackcap

Update 27.05.22
Mr Blackbirds says hi

Making the most of the water

Synchronised drinking
Goldfinch

A very splashy blackbird

Mr Blackbird showing who's boss

Update 06.05.22
Time for a late night snack for the blackbird

I saw that, you taking the stick woodpigeon

Male blackbird catching food

Good catch, a protein filled earthworm

New water first one to 'dive' in is the Bue tit

Great tit making a splash

Can it get even splashier?

Oh yes, the cute little splashes of the Robin

The woodpigeon and the magical hovering leaf

Woodpigeon tolerating the mapgie and vice versa

Wood pigeon and magpie protest

Blue tit having a bath

Almost no water left for the Great Tit

Squabling wood pigeons

Rare visit of a longtailed tit

How much nesting material can you hold in your beak?

Songthrush checking out what is going on

The Black cap and the Robin

Robin with a worm

Sparrow having a drink

Update 29.04.22
Is this our first Robin young of 2022

Wood pigeon collecting the right sized twigs for its nest

Where has all the water gone

Today's prize for the best feathered bird goes to....

Female blackbird collecting nesting material

Great catch

Blackbird dealing with possibly a snail

Blue tit

Collared doves

Robin looking for food

Update 01.04.22
How am I going to take this stick with me?

Great tit feeding

If you look closely your can not see two Great Tits, but four

Greenfinches on the waterbowl

After the washing comes the preening

Robin at its favourite feeding spot

Robin in a flurry of snow

Update 25.03.22
Just get rid of that itch

Time to find some food

Very early robin in the limelight

Robin struggling with its meal

Redwing not sure what to do

Look where this Great Tit finds its food

Hello Robin, what are you looking for?

Redwing looking for food

Update 18.03.22
Songthrush eating a well earned earthworm

Woodpigeons relaxing after a busy day in the woodpigeon 'office'
Blackbird got lucky

Mr Sparrow also fancies a bite from Mrs Blackbird's food

What excellent waterproofing on the blackbirds feathers

Another feather going in a sparrow's nest, must be very cosy

Redwings also love earthworms for breakfast

Must be a good area for earthworms

What a poser

Unsure Dunnock

Drinks taste better with a friend

Right I'm out of here

Update 11.03.22
Little Robin

Mapgie drinking and keeping the waterbowl free of leaves

Magpie looking the part

Sparrow collecting nesting material

Rain or no rain you need your food

Mrs Blackbird looking for food

Look at my speckled chest

Don't blink or might miss the Great Tit

Chaffinch looking for seeds

Look who decided to join the Redwings?

Update 04.03.22
Soooo many birds

Pheasant casually walking the school grounds

Redwing not sure about the camera

Redwings flinging leaves around to find food

Goldfinch

Fluffy Great tit

Little robin

Woodpigeons circling the waterbowl, drink or no drink

Blackbird close up

Great tit searching for food

Brambling nearly so well camouflaged you can't see it

Hello, little dunnock

What goes in needs to come out

Need to keep the feathers clean

Tummy of gold, with the sun shining on it

Greenfinch owning the waterbowl, sorry Mr Chaffinch

Update 25.02.22
Magpie having a drink

Blackbirds squabling

Woodpigeon - blackbird stand off

No cameras please

Woodpigeons in no rush

Are they guiding the blackbird out?

All those woodpigeons

Is there any food here?

Beautiful chaffinch looking for food

Sound up redwing chirping

Elegant collared dove gets its feathers ruffled by the storm

Update 11.02.22
Redwing enthousiatically looking for food

First you see me, then you don't

Greenfinches enjoying a drink

Some bird thinks it owns the waterbowl

Update 04.02.22
Wood pigeons looking for food, one even managed to get a worm

Blackbird's food search

Magpie, doing a tail flick

Update 28.01.22
A leisurely bath and a search for food

Who’s boss?
Finally the waterbowl is mine, look at me splatter

Greenfinch on the hidden waterbowl
Wood pigeon having a nose around

Update 21.01.22
First time we have seen this special visitor at our waterbowl, a green woodpecker

Find out more about the Green woodpecker, click link below.
Close up of a greenfinch

Greenfinch drinking

Greenfinches, chaffinches and bramblings our ground get them all, how lucky are we?

Blackbird doing the bathing dance

Robin also in need of a wash

Update 14.01.22
Female pheasant having a stroll

Aren't I a handsome chap?

Greenfinches and bramblings

Greenfinches and brambling

Chaffinches looking for food

Sound up, song thrush singing whilst feeding

Redwing is really going for it to find its food

Redwings looking for food

Treecreepers

Is there any food and water here?

Song thrush and bullfinch

Update 17.12.21
Goldfinches, with their amazing coloured feathers

Great tit trying to bathe

A closer look at the chaffinch

Update 10.12.21
Just give yourself a good wash

A pair of bullfinches having a drink

Sparrows & great tit

Unsure wood pigeon

To drink or not to drink

I spy with my little eye a pheasant, do you as well?

Magpie tasting the water

Two male blackbird, two different coloured beaks

The resident UK Blackbird get the distinctive orange-yellow beak and eye-ring around the first year of their life. On the otherhand, Blackbirds from other parts of Europe are believed not to develop their orange-yellow beak and eye-ring until the second year of their lives. Seeing a blackbird in your garden with a black beak and eye-ring is therefore likely to be a first-year male blackbird, perhaps a winter visitor from Europe.
Chaffinches looking for food

Greenfinches looking for food

I'm looking lovely, don't you think?

Little wren and a robin having a wash

Update 03.12.21
Long tailed tit and blue tit

Silly dove, did you forget about your wings?

Seeing double

Mapgies and squirrel

Lovely robin

Update 26.11.21
Our first migrant visitors of the year: Redwing

Great tit and robin having a wash

Fluffy Robin

Magpie trying to get a drink in an almost empty waterbowl

Is the water any good here? Magpie bringing a friend

Update 19.11.21
Black bird being protective again

Snack time

Song thrush trying to get a drink

Just checking out the grounds

Aha that's how you leave

Robin going funny

Update 05.11.21
Songtrush looking for food

Pheasant looking beautiful

Casual strolling pheasant

The waterbowl all to yourself, but where is the water?

Update 22.10.21
Female Great Spotted Woodpecker, isn't is stunning?

Female pheasant wondering where she has landed into and how to get out

Robin showing off to a very unimpressed great tit

The robin and the song thrush

Robin catching a very juicy worm

Where did all the water go?

Blackbird juggling to eat a worm

If you're having a wash you might want to do it well

Songthrush claiming the waterbowl

Update 14.10.21
Great tit using both feet to hold it's food, but what is it eating?

Songthrush using a stone to open its food

Close up Songthrush

Blackbirds gathering food

Update 08.10.21
So many birds

The blue tit and the empty water bowl

An earthworm makes a great afternoon snack

Young blackbird

Scruffy blackbird

Update 01.10.21
Doves exploring the woods

Wood pigeon refining the art of stick juggling

Black bird chick getting fed

Update 24.09.21
Watch the videos about the Magpies taking over the drinking bowl during the hot weather
After hours blackbird meetup

A very territorial Mr Blackbird

Very handsome song thrush

Update 16.07.21
Great tits bathing and having a browse

A very wet great tit having a great time

Great tit trying to get to food

Juvenile woodpigeon, it has none of distinctive markings and colouring its parents have

The wood pigeon is a bit unsure at what it is doing

Magpie seems to have become a regular at our drinking bowl

Magpie has a very special way of drinking and testing out the water bowl, it seems not to like bits in it though

Not enough water, Im off

Three is too many

Hero our unjured blackbird seems to be getting stronger

Yes, everything seems to working very well

Robin feeding its young

Young robin

Update 09.07.21
Who said sparrows look dull, look at the brown patterns on it's back, just lovely

The sparrow brought its whole family with him

Blackbird just splattering away

Don't even think about, it's my bath

Blackbird doing the swiping motion, still don't know what it's caught though.

Hero the blackbird preening himself

That deserves a rest

After the rest Hero needs food

Update 01.07.21
Juvenile blackbird

A very territorial male blackbird not happy with the juvenile's presence

It's still not happy.

Crow having dinner

Magpie in all its colour having a drink

Juvenile robin having a bath

Update 24.06.21
Our Hero blackbird is still alive and well, despite its injury

Blackbird swiping. Apparently it needs to get rid of something or maybe open something up

Swiping seems to be the thing, here's another blackbird doing it. What's on the menu that required swiping?

You look at me, I look at you!

Yep, I found it, the right stick for my nest

Two song thrushes foraging

Two robins having a bath

Look at the blackbird splattering

Update 18.06.21
Tensions are running high with this heat, black bird females having a squabble

Robin bathing, you have to cool down with this heat

A pair of great tits having a bath

Sorry guys, you have used all the water, none left

A pair of great tits looking for food

Juvenile Black bird

Blackcaps

Update 11.06.2021
Hero Black bird, what a character even when he's limping, still collecting food for it's chicks

Get them early, blackbird sorting breakfast for its chicks

Songthrush

Wood pigeon juggling a stick

Master of disguise the Dunnock having a forage

Update 21.05.2021
Hurry, hurry, where is it, were are missing it!

Turn up the volume and just listen to the birdsong, just close your eyes

Update 14.05.2021
Magpie tasting the water, hope it's from a good year

Black bird sunbathing

Blackbird testing it vocalcords

Update 07.05.2021
Blackbirds squabbling over drink bowl

New birds visiting: Black caps

Sparrowhawk female catching dinner
Sparrow hawk mantling her prey to protect it from being stolen by other birds
Female sparrow hawk dealing with its catch

Blackbird eating a grub

Blackbird foraging

One thirsty wood pigeon

Update 23.04.2021
Black bird male eating an apple

Woodpigeon

Early birds catches the worm


Look at them go, better hide

Songthrush

Sparrow collecting nesting material

Collared dove

Update 16.04.2021
Rook or crow

Long tailed tit

Black bird collecting earthworms for its young

Mapgie

Magpie

Update 25.03.21
Pheasant (male)

Look how beautiful I am

Song thrush

Red wings are still here, although they are winter migrants

Red Wing

Great Tit

Robin

Update 12.03.2021
This is a surprise, who would have thought to see this bird here

Have you got any idea what type of bird this is? Have a closer look.

Well it is a bird of prey having lunch

But what bird of prey is it?

It's a Sparrow Hawk

Survival of the fittest

Any weak or old birds make easy prey

Lunch over time to go

Trying to blend in, what great camouflage

The early bird catches the .....

Update 05.03.21
Those birds keep coming we can keep adding to our list of bird species,
Green finch

Chaffinch munching away

Dunnock

Well our cameras also spotted some birds recently. Especially after the snow some birds were thirsty and needed a wash, what joy they had in all the puddles that were everywhere. At least 9 different bird species have visited, even a winter migrant (bird that comes to a warmer climate to over-winter) the Redwing (see photo). Where do you think a Redwing normally lives?
The birds that we have seen on the cameras are: Great Tit, Redwing, Blackbird, Magpie, Wren, Chaffinch, Wood pigeon, Robin and even a Tree Creeper, can you spot them? Do you know what some of these birds eat?
Great tit

Red wing

Black bird (male)

Magpie

Wren

Chaffinch

Wood pigeon

Tree creeper

Robin
