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 Collared Dove as it always brings peace and love where ever it goes.
A Heron and it ate all my fish from my pond. He must have been hungry as it was last winter.
2 years ago I had a pheasant visiting my garden. It was eating food left on the ground from my bird feeders. Bit of snow at the time. Could not believe my eyes.
Sparrow Hawk is a masterful work of art with superb flying skills – they visit us regularly
it’s a toss up between woodpecker and a peahen that once visited us
Pheasants, so much fun! They can be very cheeky!
The wren is always a very welcome visitor and also the dunnocks which are very active and are amazing to try to follow, blink and they’ve gone or blended in with the background.
We get alot of small birds and pidgeys in ours and it may be boring for some but the lovely robin is my favourite garden visitor 🙂
The most interesting bird to visit our garden recently is a Buzzard who patiently perches on top of one of our nesting boxes waiting for a mole to appear.
Green Woodpecker visits our garden regularly .
Beautiful colours .
A woodpecker, with its tell tell sound of pecking on the trees
MY GIRLFRIEND JENNY, PLUS A INJURED RED KITE,2019
I have a greater spotted woodpecker that visits the tree at the bottom of my garden but my favourite is the little Robin who watches me do the gardening.
We regularly get a pied wagtail strutting about on the roof, makes a change from where we usually see them on the supermarket car park!
Starlings. I just adore them.
The last 4 days we have got a pheasant wondering around he/her has got a limp. I have been feeding it with my parrots left over seed, also a website said some apple and pear.
The best bird that has visited my garden is the Goldfinch – they visit all the time, a charm of them most of the time and love eating the sunflower hearts…although at one time I had a few Long-tailed Tits visit and I get the Coal Tit too
When the “Beast from The East” happened, we had a Fieldfare in our garden. Who obviously went and told his friends that they were also welcome, as the next day we had 9 in total. Whether that number included the original one we have no idea. Funniest thing we’ve seen, is when 6 young starlings all got in the birdbath at the same time (sorry for that random bit of info it just made me laugh).
Bullfinch
Two kinds of woodpecker, lesser spotted and the green ones.
A brambling that came every day for a few weeks, then was never seen again.
watched a lesser spotted woodpecker feed on our bird feeder outside our bedroom window. Really surprised me.
The red kites that visit are spectacular
Occasionally I get long tailed tits.
Pretty birds but very quick. Live them.
We don’t know the names of the birds that have visited but we have seen many Robins in our garden recently.
Last year I was happy to see my friendly robin who visits often but especially because they made a nest in ivy growing up one wall.