[Closed] What bird table visitor would thrill you?

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Jimi Hendrix?

An octopus.

Used to get a Woodpecker at the old house. We get a Jay the size of a rugby ball at the new one.

A red squirrel would be nice.
Bird wise...a Dodo.

I'm in That London, and see Great Tits, Wagtails, Sand Martins, as well as Peregrine Falcons, Kestrels and Sparrowhawks. Among loads of other boids. Once saw a Kingfisher less than 1/2 mile from the City.

Griffin Vulture would be pretty cool.

jessica alba or natalie portman.... failing that a t-rex or great white shark.

Nuthatch.

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big bird always seems so nice.

My parents used to have a hobby that would take small birds from the bird table.

I didn't get to see it. 🙁

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Regular birds in/very near the garden are:

Buzzards
Pretty much every common garden bird (tits, blackbirds, etc)
Peregrine Falcons
Egrets
Herons
Godwits
Avocets
Woodpeckers (all the time)
Pheasants
Goldfinches
Yellowhammers
Swans
Various ducks

And more.

We live on the edge of a nature reserve so we get most birds on our table, on occaison we've even had a Jay on there. Sometimes get Pheasant round the bottom of it, but one thing I've never seen is a Nuthatch - not on the table anyway. Fabulous looking bird, probably one of my favourites.

A few years ago on Christmas day, we had a couple of Male Bullfinch on there, never saw them again until the same date a year later. Wierd.

Surf-mat where do you live? Interesting birdage.

I'd like to see a Waxwing again this winter.

a panda
but contrary to popular belief, the bamboo I'm putting out doesn't seem to attract them

A big breasted bed thrasher 8)

Failing that a Puffin

a big f-off blackbird would give me a thrill
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tt - on the banks of the River Fal so we get a good combination of garden and water birds.

There's also an egret colony on the opposite side of the river - quite rare apparently. We get loads of twitchers around here!

huws - Strange hobby for your parents to have, most do things like painting or model making

We live in Worcestershire & have not seen any Song Thrushes for at least two years, which is worring!

Had a kingfisher resting in our garden last year! Which colours in flight are amazing and worth seeing.

Put out niger seeds for the first time this year & within 2 months now have 3 pairs Goldfinches now filling up the feeder.

a big f-off blackbird would give me a thrill

Oh yeah 'cos that's gonna be great fer yer lawn and raised beds, leaking aviation fuel everywhere. 🙄

Nice little Harrier....Jump Jet.

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Note the brolly; handy for sitting out when it's a little drizzly.

The golden egg laying goose from The Goodies.

Great minds Phil!

I was gonna say shark too... (^^^) gives you a pic of a shark on that there facebook chat.

a grizzly bear,

or, failing that, a pterodactyl

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Not on the bird table but we had a nuthatch in the evergreens at the bottom of the garden last year. Would love to see an owl in the garden, have heard it often enough!

Waxwing you say

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or a yellow hammer http://www.scottishnaturephotography.com/Fergus-Galleries/Garden-Yellowhammers/10084979_FoUGZ#P-2-10

or one of these

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yeti, email me (should be in my profile) for awesome shark pictures

might even throw in a t-rex or a philosoraptor

I saw a couple of waxwings in my folks' garden when i was a teenager. Saw another pair a couple of winters back on the [cough] golf course. The most beautiful birds in my book.

Had a GS woodpecker on my nuts when I woke up this morning.

(giggedy)

geoffj, what's that thrush?

(giggedy)(no, seriously, what is it?)

One of these
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Surf Mat's list is pretty AWESOME.

I see a Heron but would really like a visit from:

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It's a fieldfare

More details here http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/photo.do?photo=2682&category=57&group=4

Taken by the son of a colleague.

We get these (in suburban Surrey)

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Debbie Ashby in her prime would be rather nice.

Shouldn't the post title be "What bird table visitor would trill you?"

Sorry.......[i]gets coat[/i]...........

Ooooooh, so many! Goldfinches and dunnocks.

I would love to see a sea eagle but I don't live by the sea or in Scotland. 🙁

I like seeing kingfishers (seen a few on the canal banks) and Jay's ( saw one of these a while ago). Regulary see Herons whilst biking locally.
My mum found a kestral lying stunned at the roadside.She stopped her car and went to it and it sat on her shoulder for a bit, composed itself and flew off! This happened a few weeks ago.

The Red Kites are getting nearer, they seem to be traveling along the Ridgeway.
The sooner they get here and see off the guls the better.
Why can't we shoot guls? they're a frickin nuisance.

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We had an eagle of some description in the garden, eating a goose the other day. Well, that's what I told the kids anyway.

The woman next door who knows about these things reckons it was a sparrowhawk with a pidgeon, but I think I know best.

my table at work gets one of these every few days.

Not my photo I hasten to add...

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Wow - my first double post!

"The minute I get my fat balls out, the tits suddenly appear everywhere" (Sid James, Carry on Birding, circa 1972)
We also have a fair selection of birds - great spotted woodpeckers (aggressive devils that dominate the other birds), green woodpeckers (more interested in the ants at ground level), coal tits, long tailed tits (I think), doves, jay, kingfisher (v v shy and easily scared off though), heron, wrens, finches and nuthatches as well as the other usual garden birds. They seem to prefer peanuts to seed. (The heron, kingfisher and green woodpecker do not go near the feeders, though - just been spotted nearby)
I'm having to buy seed in bulk and it's costing a fortune at the moment - I'm having to fill 2 extra large seed feeders every other day......
I'm easily pleased and would be thrilled to see any bird I hadn't seen before.

I get tits on my nuts all the time but wouldn't mind a Shag 😉

Tried Niger Seeds last year and the birds ignored them, and they don't seem to like sunflower seeds in shells either, but they go mad for the sunflower hearts, and they've now started to go for fatballs and coconut shells filled with fat and seeds. In the garden I get a flock of Goldfinches, often numbering over twenty at a time, a small family of sparrows, some starlings, a couple of robins, blackbirds, chaffinches, Greenfinches, wagtails, occasionally some long-tailed tits, blue tits, great tits, redwings and fieldfares later in the winter, and I had a flock of waxwings last winter in the trees at the bottom of the garden. Had a sparrowhawk once some years back.
No baby robins tho'.
edit] I'd love to get a Jay and some bullfinches

The most colourful visitors I get to my garden are Goldfinches

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Would quite like to see a yellowhammer in my garden.

I'm aware it's not a bird, but on the weekend an otter took 5 pretty sizeable (50-60cm) Koi Carp from the pond and scattered them through the fields with various parts missing. The sheep didn't quite know what to make of it. I've always been hoping to see the Heron which regularly visits go for one, but he never has, the coward.

I would love to see a Hoopoe, they are meant to visit Britain but I've never seen one.

I saw a Hoopoe whilst I was staying at a friends holiday home in Normandy in France. My friend is now very jealous as he has never had the pleasure.

Quite the most distinctive bird I have ever seen. Never seen one in the UK though.

Raven, they are bad ass!

Only lived in my house 1 year in ludlow and had

Blackcaps (regular)
Goldcrest (regular ish)
Redwing
Fieldfare
Willow Tit
Buzzard

Seen only 10 yards from house (on river Teme)

Gooseander
Kingfisher (nested opposite our house)
Cormorant
Dippers
Yellow Wagtail
Hobby

Hopefully lookin forward to seeing a Hawfinch soon

I would like to see a Siskin/yellowhammer and Brambling in garden

Derek, since you live in Manchester, have you visited the [url= http://www.vaughnscountrycafe.co.uk/ ]cafe[/url] at Tockholes?
[i]"The cafe hosts a unique bird watching facility through one way glass and regular visitors include greater spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches chaffinches and many more."[/i]

The food is nothing special, but the birds are absolutely fascinating. We watched three [url= http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/greatspottedwoodpecker/index.aspx ]woodpeckers[/url] back in the summer

Nice riding as well, through Roddlesworth Woods, or up to [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackburn-with-darwen/5168903267/in/set-72157625367821352/ ]Darwen Tower[/url] (but maybe wait until the tower is fixed!)

Esme - you've just sent a shiver down my spine! A friend of mine has organised a route to ride on Saturday. Starting in Horich, taking in Turton Moor, Withnell moor etc.. He suggested a cafe stop at around the half way point. And guess what - it's Vaughn's Country Cafe that you have just described in your post!

So no I haven't but on Saturday I will 😮

I love coincidences.

Me too! 😉

+1 peajay. Ravens are starting to reappear around North Wilts, I've seen them on the Ridgeway above Avebury and around the Wilts & Berks Canal at Reybridge near Lacock, so I'm hoping to see them coming close to Chippenham. I've seen a Red Kite near Calne, and another heading towards Marshfield from Bristol, so maybe I'll get to see them squabbling over bacon scraps in the garden. [i]That[/i] would be really something.

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Stephens Island Wren.