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
I’ve started getting a woodpecker in my garden recently, though my favourite is a nuthatch visitor I’ve been having a while now 🙂
nothing more exciting than a blue tit
A sparrowhawk, incidentally it made two pigeons crash into each other, killing them instantly.
a sparrow hawk, sitting watching the birds on my table,
Wren
a lesser spotted woodpecker..he loves the bird nuts!
A heron, didn’t see it myself but it gave my partner a hell of a shock to see it looking in our pond!
A female pheasant
Definitely the Sparrowhawk
love to see robins visiting
I had waited a very long time hoping I might be lucky enough to see a Sparrowhawk in my garden close enough to photograph, then one day, without warning I looked up from my hide and there it was, the most beautiful Sparrowhawk I’d ever seen, and It settled long enough for me to get a few shots, How lucky was I ?
A woodpecker, we were all so excited to see it, my youngest son loves to bird watch
Had a Kingfisher visit once, but I keep hoping for a second visit.
Never ever, seen a Goldfinch in my 30 year old garden, spotted one on Christmas Eve, watched 2 Goldfinch flying around on Tuesday 31st December 2019.
A jay visits our garden sometimes but the robins are my favourite
Waxwing one Christmas morning when I had just been given a Spotting scope!1
Goldfinch
Pair of bullfinches, beautiful, majestic birds. Had only EVER seen one in over 40 years and they started visiting our garden regularly 3 years ago
The little robin that regularly visits my garden. That might seem like an everyday bird to some, but I get such a thrill when I see a robin. He was stood on the fence singing away the other day. It’s just so lovely to see
Yellowhammer
We once had a pheasant pop into our back garden but one day we were blessed with a visit from a red kite one of my all time favourite birds ?
Greater Spotted Woodpeckers visit my peanut feeders. Love to see them
A Kingfisher, it was absolutely beautiful!
A Kingfisher, he sat on our ornamental heron, for 20minutes, dived into our pond, caught a goldfish, stunned it on the rockery, swallowed it whole and flew off.