Happy New Year from the team at Bird Spot HQ!
It’s the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this month, the UK’s biggest wildlife survey. And to celebrate we’re giving one lucky Bird Spotter the chance to win a copy of British Birds: A Pocket Guide.
Part of the brilliant WILDGuides series, this little book is packed full of hundreds of stunning photographs and detailed descriptions to help you identify not only the birds in your garden but also those found further afield.
To enter all you need to do is tell us which is the best bird that has ever visited your garden. Enter your answers in the comments below, and we’ll pick a winner at random using the wonderful wheel of names.
The competition closes at 11:59 pm on the 8th January 2020 and you can see the full competition Ts&Cs here.
Good luck!
This competition is now closed. Congratulations to Mrs D McCandless – we hope you enjoy the book.
Don’t worry if you weren’t able to enter – check back soon for another chance to win.
340 Responses
A Robin and I’m glad as I love that bird
Long tailed tits, 6 of them!
6 long tail tits all came to the fat balls at once and then all left together after a bite
A heron
Not so many in our garden, but some lovely ones in my neigbours garden which we can see from a lounge. My favourite was the gold finches.
A beautiful Willow tit
Robin. I know they are very common but I love them so think they are the best birds to visit my garden.
We had a pair of gold crest’s make a nest in the ivy on a trellis but my husband parked his car next to it , it had dark windows, then we saw
the little birds attacking the windows, they thought they had intruders
but it was only their reflections, so he moved the car further away.
I have all sorts of birds visiting my feeding station all day long, but my favourites are a Greater Spotted Woodpecker and a pair of pretty collared doves. And a cute little goldcrest.
Lots of lovely birds but one morning I was amazed to find a Goshawk in my garden, my husband didn’t believe me he thought it was a Sparrowhawk but when we looked it up it definitely was. Quite spectacular, especially when it flew away!
We have a wood pecker that visits regularly
When we lived up in Yeovil, near 9 Springs Country Park, we had a Kingfisher visit us!
Long tailed tits – I love them!!
A pair of collared doves
A charm of goldfinches visit my garden every day.
Sparrow Hawk. Heard a terrible noise in the garden lots of birds squawking and other animal noise, looked out the window to see the Sparrow Hawk taking off with a mouse .
We have pheasants in our neighbourhood, and we don’t even live in the countryside.
We get a little firecrest that taps on our kitchen window as if trying to get in, we have been told that it can probably see its reflection.
The best bird that has ever visited our garden was a : Woodpecker
I had a red kite in my garden, my cats had bought a rabbit which sadly passed and the red kite came straight down and had it! Just by chance I was looking out the window!
A cheeky little robin whose comes so close for his mealworms
We have a beautiful Jay which often visits our garden, it’s so lovely to see him
Female Black Redstart.
We have Red Kites flying over our land – magic.
A pair of peregrine falcons. The female trying to kill the small birds on my bird feeder one day and the following day the larger male who killed a collared dove and a pigeon. Amazing birds.
A Sparrowhawk, so quick – only seen a couple of times