Garden photo number 2

[Marc1965]

I managed to get a photo of this robbin before he/she flew off.

[Marc1965]

My garden backs onto a cemetery so with all the birdseed I put out we get many visitors.

[Apollomycat in reply to Marc1965]

Ahh how sweet it is

[Thepainterswife in reply to Marc1965]

Mine too , I live in an urban area but with open country at the back and a river beyond ,I love the wildlife , although it costs a small fortune to feed them 😂. Great photo

[Marc1965 in reply to Thepainterswife]

Yes,it is expensive.I spend about £60 a month on birdseed and about £20 on hedgehog food.I have cut a low hole in the cemetery fence so that hedgehogs and foxes can pass by.

[Thepainterswife in reply to Marc1965]

I’ve never been sure if hedgehogs visit or not , I’ve had a hedgehog house tucked away under a large laurel bush surrounded by logs etc for some years but it doesn’t seem to be used 😥. I tried putting food out which went every night but I didn’t know if it was hogs or rats . My garden is across an unadopted back street ( the house was built by the church in 1870 to accommodate the verger , gravedigger etc and each house on the row - 5 - was allocated a plot of land to grow their own food ) It’s a great garden for wildlife , very quiet and private but means I can’t always see what’s going on in there 😂

[Ern007]

Nice one Marc, very clear shot.

[Marc1965 in reply to Ern007]

Yes,I was lucky, I just took this one as I was walking in the garden.I actually have a bird hide to sit in and take photos that I intend to set up this year.

I often just sit in the garden for a few minutes break with a camera and see what appears.

I have seen flying geese,aircraft,Parakeets,I even had a heron fly overhead once as a neibour has a large pond with many fish in it.

My place gets visits from hedgehogs at night.

[Izb1 in reply to Marc1965]

How lucky are you, my garden is so quiet now. I used to have many visitors, we only have magpies pigeons and crows now. All the little birds have almost gone. I sometimes witness a sparrow or wren and I sometimes have a Robin but they are few and far between. It's so sad to think we no longer have the dawn chorus. I remember when coming home from work and all the rooftops would be lined up with birds chattering away x

[leo60 in reply to Izb1]

I used to have hundreds of swallows(?) gather on the phone lines outside my house even 5 years ago. I haven't seen ANY since then, so sad. xx

[Izb1 in reply to leo60]

It's really awful and don't know why this is happening, somebody said about not using slug pellets in the garden but think there must be something else killing the birds as its so widespread x

[Welshcatlady]

Lovely photo, we have a robin in the vicinity, every morning I hear him singing away, such a beautiful song, but can never see him! Whenever I hear him, I look up into the tree that the song is coming from, but then he stops singing! lol But at least I have that wonderful song to hear! 🎶

[Marc1965 in reply to Welshcatlady]

They are lovely.I like all birds but Robins are a favourite.

[Welshcatlady in reply to Marc1965]

Same here, but Blackbirds are also a close favourite.

[Mopsey1897]

great photo. I love robins, they always cheer me up when they are in my garden.

[Marc1965 in reply to Mopsey1897]

Me too mopsey.

[Patk1]

Grest photo.i.too. love to see Robins.i love to sit out and hear birds singing. Flick through my bird books trying to identify them x

[Marc1965 in reply to Patk1]

Yes pat.I am forever looking out for them.I drive an HGV 1 truck down the motorway 3 days a week and I am often looking out at the deer,ponies in fields,red kites overhead. Occasionally I look at the road 😂

[Patk1 in reply to Marc1965]

How lovely to see so much wildlife...between looking at the road >) x

[sassy59]

l love the birds especially robins. X

[Mydoggnasher]

Beautiful 😍

[Alberta56]

We have a colony of shy robins. I never see them, but one starts singing as soon as I go into the garden. I'm not sure if he's saying 'Hello' or 'Clear off, This is my territory.' That's another lovely photo.

[PaperQueen]

Beautiful shot. I love watching the birds in my garden and I'm often entertained by a Robin and Blackbird singing their hearts out. x

[leo60 in reply to PaperQueen]

I often wonder if they have their own Britain's Got Talent!! xx

[Kitten-kat23]

I love Robins.

[Souielouie]

😍 thanku

[Otto11]

We have a regular Robin visits our garden. He sings away quite happily. He’s happy to sit on the fence while he watches us work or sit. Quite close too & dosnt seem afraid. I’m not a bird lover really but he’s cute. We regularly get visits from a Herron as we have a large pond. There are some tits getting one of the boxes ready at the moment unfortunately that’s not the one that hubby has a camera in.

[Nicholatracy]

looks so delicate 🐞

[leo60]

What a great shot! Thank you for sharing it 😊

I have a bird feeder that is visited by birds from both sides of my garden. So I have (just to be greedy!!) two pairs of robins as well as blue tits, gold finches, wrens, blackbirds, thrushes, ringed doves, pigeons, starlings and a hedge full of sparrows! They cost a fortune, but I can tell by other gardens in the area that wildlife is not a priority, so I do try to compensate.

You can imagine how sad I was to find a baby robin all on it's own under the table in the garden 😥 It was too young for me to realistically have been able to save it and although the parents did feed it for a little while, they gave up too. 😔 Nature can be cruel.

But also glorious! I love my birds, though my granddaughter does correct me : "Granny, they're not technically your birds!"

Enjoy your birds all xx

[Greenthorn in reply to leo60]

Not technically YOUR birds? Of course they are your birds. 🤪 It's got me thinking .... when I'm out in the garden this morning I'm going to say "now where are my birds?"It's a new way of thinking. We belong to nature and nature belongs to us!

[Dovecote6]

Really good photo lover the Robin

[islande]

that's so pretty marc