The humble black bird

[Franchi Matt]

Anyone else seen good numbers of black birds this year? We have amazing nunbers of fledglings of various ages hiding in our Hypericum, the robin has also been busy now on its second/third of this year.
I know the blue tits had a hard time with the late frosts - we had a nest box with chicks abandoned earlier in the year, but its looking like its been a good year for black birds, robins and wrens too.
Im seeing early signs of a super fruit phenomena this year, maybe that's helping?

Anyone else noticed a change in garden bird numbers this year?

Also a couple of the younger female balck birds have large white feathers on their backs at the tail end, one of them so much so that when it flies off from behind it looks like a magpie...

I only finished landscaping last autumn so obviously that has help as it was all lawn when we moved in.

 

[T.eddie]

we have a good few round us, one fledgling has a little white patch and ive been able to see it growing for the last few weeks

 

[Pellet Pinger]

We’ve had nests front and back for the last 10 years and yet to have a successful clutch. Magpies and squizzers doing their thing.

 

[Franchi Matt]

We’ve had nests front and back for the last 10 years and yet to have a successful clutch. Magpies and squizzers doing their thing.

I have been on the squirrels and magpies for three years now, so mumbers are super low and having dispatched parents the young give our garden a very wide birth indeed the one corvid I struggle with is Kackdaws..... but again they do their best to not cross my path.

 

[User00053]

Plenty in these parts, thriving in fact.

 

[old keeper]

Too many round here, unless I'm quick they'll strip all the fruit bushes before I can get them (the fruit not the Blackbirds).

Thrushes are occasionally seen out in the fields but very few in the garden. No greenfinches, precious few chaffinches, robins aplenty, Shortage of magpies, I wonder why!

The success story has been blue Tits and great tits and of course the equally humble wood pigeon!

 

[Brighty3006]

Lots hear in south lincolnshire. Also rising numbers of sparrows and starlings

 

[csl]

Too many round here, unless I'm quick they'll strip all the fruit bushes before I can get them (the fruit not the Blackbirds).

Thrushes are occasionally seen out in the fields but very few in the garden. No greenfinches, precious few chaffinches, robins aplenty, Shortage of magpies, I wonder why!

The success story has been blue Tits and great tits and of course the equally humble wood pigeon!

I'll trade you a pair of greenfinches if you'll give me some blue tits!

 

[bluesako]

yes seen a lot of songbirds near me, it must be down to me clobbering all the magpies and jays bs.

 

[Red Dragon 2]

Young dog just bought back a blackbird that has been dead a couple of days but plenty of all birds seem to have had a bumper year breeding. Gold finches especial, have at least two broods around.

 

[Dunwaters]

Its been a great year here, I had 5 nest boxes up, all were occupied and the chicks fledged. The blackbirds had 2 broods as did the robins. There are still some greenfinches and goodies singing..

 

[FrenchieBoy]

We have plenty of blackbirds visit our garden but this year we have seen very few thrushes. There is a robin nests in an evergreen in our front garden and has successfully produced her second brood. We feed them regularly and they are getting quite used to seeing us and don't get worried about being in our presence.
It's always a pleasure to get up early if you have had a bad night and listen to the "Dawn Chorus"!

 

[Covert]

Fewer blackbirds and less song thrushes.
More mistle thrushes year on year.
Bird feeders busy in the garden, filled one with Niger seeds in November, nothing on it until March when 6 siskins hammered it.
Goldfinches and bullfinches but no greenfinches.
Habitat loss, disturbance and nest predation from the usual assorted vermin, apologies,opportunistic omnivorous sentient beings,
Had this conversation with some friends over a shoot lunch last winter.
All with similar observations regarding bird sightings. Conversation brought to a abrupt halt with the images evokes by the line , “ I had a pair of great tits on my fat balls”

 

[FrenchieBoy]

Fewer blackbirds and less song thrushes.
More mistle thrushes year on year.
Bird feeders busy in the garden, filled one with Niger seeds in November, nothing on it until March when 6 siskins hammered it.
Goldfinches and bullfinches but no greenfinches.
Habitat loss, disturbance and nest predation from the usual assorted vermin, apologies,opportunistic omnivorous sentient beings,
Had this conversation with some friends over a shoot lunch last winter.
All with similar observations regarding bird sightings. Conversation brought to a abrupt halt with the images evokes by the line , “ I had a pair of great tits on my fat balls”

You should be so lucky!

 

[Covert]

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Bearded Tit.
Swallow.
Shag.

Still makes me chuckle.

The Lady of the house says I need to grow up and act my age not my shoe size

 

[VSS]

I'll trade you a pair of greenfinches if you'll give me some blue tits!

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[foxhunter]

Loads of blackbirds round here, always has been. Saw a load of long tailed tits today whilst decoying.