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Which bird cheers you up the most?

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They are always bright and cheerful and very interested in what your doing in the garden

This year it has to be a pair of Bullfinches. The male is such a vivid pink, at first sight I thought it was some escaped tropical bird. They take it in turns to land on the feeders while the other one keeps watch. But they're seen so rarely now that they've made us feel very special, so for that they get my vote this year!

Oh lucky lucky you. Have you thought of contacting the RSPB to see if there is anything you can do to ensure their survival, help them breed?

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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out

You will always be your child's favorite toy

Have to say I have different birds for different things!

Long tailed tits...... just perfect any time
Robin - that dreamy autumn twittering--doing it now, seems early this year
Thrush - beautiful evening song
Pheasant- that cranky autumn daytime call
Skylark- summers on its way call
switfs- that high pitched twittering on a hot hot summers day
OWLS- fantastic sound at night when all is still and oh so dark!
Wren- can you believe all that noise from one so small
pewits, curlews - on a bleak foggy winters day.....haunting- heavenly
woodpeckers- they sound like they are laughing, hard not to smile

All birds are great!

bit early to be on the brew aint it?!!!

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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out

You will always be your child's favorite toy

Rachel de Thame

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Oh HW...... trust you!

Has to be the robin for me, although I haven't seen much of them since the babies left the nest. Mind you the young sparrows have been very entertaining for the last few weeks waiting to have a go for nuts at the feeders.

Ian

Oh Headfry! You and me both - I love Long Tailed Tits! They are top of my list. I get so excited when our little flock decend on our garden.

My OH never saw a bird in the garden til I moved in and started feeding them, now our blackbird Tallulah deposits her newly fledged babies all over the garden on a regular basis (she's very prolific), Fred the robin gets very excited when he sees the mealworm bag coming and Jenny the Wrenny is just the cutest (and noisiest) thing ever!

My favorite is the Dunnock a small drab bird with the song of a Angel and a ground feeder helps clear up after the messy feeders .
I also have a Robin that comes in the kitchen every morning to scrounge a bit of grated cheese .
But all birds are great all worth feeding jacob marley

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I love wagtails.. something to do with those wagging tails ?

My local garden center has a tame (ish) robin that hangs out in the aquatics department. He has very few friends as the staff are w*nk*rs and the prices are daft !

Mine is actually robin but Mr S loves a Jay.

Mine is a song thrush, known as a mavis in scotland, such a gorgeous song.

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Dwell simply ~ love richly

I too have seasonal favourites,being coastal and near to a huge tidal basin(Montrose)we do get unusual "flyusoverus" rather than landers.Now I'm waiting for the Swifts to leave and the first wild geese and swans to arrive.Buzzards are a popular visitor at the moment as they scare the rabbits away.

I like wrens as they are so teeny

I may sound like i'm showing off but we have started to get a small group (4-5) of ring necked parakeets visit our peanut feeder, truely amazing birds, such a bright green but when they fly up into the trees opposite they just seem to disappear you wouldn't know they were there apart from the incredible screeching!!!!!.

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Wow kernowyon! they must be lovely to see! not sure about the noise though

I like Blackbirds as there was a nest in my garden and the chicks made me laugh. They have gone now.
Also I have a family of 5 magpies at the bottom of the garden and I like watching them in the mornings on the lawn before the dogs go out.

Robin, blackbird and thrush( if only we had some!

If I had one choice it would be the thrush as they are so rare around us these days and robins are such bullies.

I've got my mate Bob in my garden and he's a Robin.Her indoors thinks I'm mad cos I talk to him!!!

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We have a Flock of 6 or 7 or 8 -we can never count them all - gold finches in the trees at the bottom of the garden. They are amazing to watch they are never still, make you feel giddy just watching them