Your birds of spring (1 Viewer)

mkdon

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2003

• #1

I did a thread like this in the winter and it was extremely interesting. I don't know much about birds outside of my area (eastern US) so this will be very educational (for me). What are the 5 main (or most plentiful) birds that you see in your area in the spring. It will be fun to look them up to see what they look like. Thanks for taking part.
My most plentiful spring birds are:

the american goldfinch
the american robin
the song sparrow
the northern cardinal
the mourning dove

 

T0ny

Okillre Member

• Apr 16, 2003

• #2

House Sparrow
European Starling
Wood Pigeon
Black-headed Gull
Blue Tit

I live in eastern England, near farmland and half-a-mile from the coast.

Tony

 

birdman

Орнитол&

• Apr 16, 2003

• #3

I guess this will always depend on where you are, but noticeable to me this spring have been

Blackbird
Common Starling
Skylark
Yellowhammer
Blue Tit

Eastern England - further North than T0ny, further inland, edge of town, into rural.

 

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Apr 17, 2003

• #4

Northern Ontario:
chickadees
evening grosbeaks
downy woodpeckers
hairy woodpeckers
starlings

So far.... the grackles can't be far off!

 

IanF

Moderator

• Apr 17, 2003

• #5

Magpie
Blackbird
Goldfinch
Blue Tit
Collared Dove

 

seb_seb

Well-known member

• Apr 17, 2003

• #6

robin
blue tit
blackbird
chaffinch
great tit
The ones that i hear singing the most are chiffchaff,chaffinch,blackbird,robin and greenfinch

 

Sal

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2003

• #7

Yellowbilled kite
Lesser striped swallow (although a few stay through the winter)
Redchested cuckoo
Diederick cuckoo
Steppe buzzard

 

mkdon

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2003

• #8

Wow! Sal, I will be heading for the encyclopedia. Thanks for adding to the thread. Any other areas willing to chip in?

 

Andrew

wibble wibble

• Apr 21, 2003

• #9

Just had my first Swallow over the garden this year. There are lots of Sand Martins, Swallows and House Martins over the local river too.

My common birds in the garden at the moment are . . .
Blackbird (nesting)
House Sparrow (Ditto)
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Robin
Starling
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Carrion Crow
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock

. . . . .I think that is all the frequent visitors to our garden.

 

Karl J

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2003

• #10

I'm only a few miles south of T0ny, on the edge of a town and have an estuary as well as the sea, also have farmland, marshland, countryside nearby. It's a good area for seeing a variety of birds, but for the absolute most common I'd add these to his list :
Common Gull
Herring Gull

 

Last edited: Apr 21, 2003

columbidae

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2003

• #11

American robin
Northern cardinal
Carolina chickadee
Mockingbird
Mourning dove

 

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peter hayes

Guest

• Apr 21, 2003

• #12

At the moment: Blackbird, Robin, Chaffinch, Wood Pigeon and Blue Tit.

 

mkdon

Well-known member

• Apr 25, 2003

• #13

Is there anyone from Eastern Europe or Australia who could list their 5 top spring birds? I am enjoying the returns. Thank you so far. It is also sending me to the books to check out the unfamiliar birds.

 

Swift

Well-known member

• Apr 25, 2003

• #14

At the moment the 5 most plentiful bird species seen on the way to work are
Lapwing
Shelduck
Starling
Black headed gull
Carrion crow

 

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Beverlybaynes

Mod Squad

• Apr 25, 2003

• #15

At my feeders:

House Finches
House Sparrows
Northern Cardinals
Mourning Doves

But driving a short way out in the country adds:

Red=Winged Blackbirds
European Starlings
Rock Doves

I'm missing my American Goldfinches!!

And if I'm really really lucky, in the next week or so, Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks will crowd my feeders, but only for about a week.

 

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simondix

Well-known member

• Apr 26, 2003

• #16

In my garden

Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Starling
Dunnock
Robin

In that order.

 

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cuddy

Brian Robson

• Apr 26, 2003

• #17

My patch is St Marys Island in North East England , we lag behind the rest of the Uk because of our location but to date the following Migrants have been seen,
Sand martin, Swallow,Curlew Sandpiper, Whimbre,l Wheatear, Sandwhich tern, Green sandpiper, Tree pipit, White wagtail,Chiffchaff, Willowwarbler, Whitethroat, Sedge warbler,
these are summer migrants.

 

Geoff Pain

Rural Member

• Apr 26, 2003

• #18

In my garden

Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Dunnock

 

Paul Rule

Well-known member

• Apr 26, 2003

• #19

In my Garden (excluding fly over species)

1 Greenfinch
2 Blackbird
3 Starling
4 Blue Tit
5 = Great Tit
5 = Dunnock
5 = Collard Dove

 

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marcus

Well-known member

• Apr 27, 2003

• #20

Well, the birds I've seen the most this spring are:
every day since April 1st, I see Caspian Terns
American Robin
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Grackle
Those are the only birds that I've started seeing in the spring and that I see a lot. I was going to include others, like Song Sparrow, American Crow, Canada Goose and Mallard, but I see those birds all year long.
marcus