Unexpected But Welcome Visitors - Birds

[Barmaid]

Sitting in the garden earlier we were watching a pied wagtail. Mr BM remarked he had not seen a yellow wagtail for years. I have never seen one.

10 mins later, I was making coffee, looked out the window and there was a pair of Yellow Wagtails!! We were both amazed. Despite sitting out here with the camera I've not seen them since

Mr BM now thinks he is gifted (well he is special) and is chuntering about golden eagles and bullfinches.

What unexpected birdies have you had in your garden?

[MargoTester]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde
We back on to woods so get lots of birds at our feeding stations. A pair of nuthatches and a pair of greater spotted woodpeckers. One visit from a green woodpecker. The nuthatches are my favourites such a pretty little bird, they walk down the trees head first.

[Barmaid]

Nuthatches are really pretty, Margo. Not seen any in the garden, but if we walk up the road to the wood we often see them.

Had treecreepers in the garden though!

[hereIam]

A friend has nuthatches that feed from the feeders he puts out, it's amusing watching them land and then turning upside down to eat ! I agree they are a lovely little bird.

[rowanwitch]

Yellow wagtails are pretty well confined to certain areas. If they were then lucky you but if they were yellow underneath and grey on top then they Might be grey wagtails. Most reports of yellows are greys. Sorry to be a bird nerd

[Tilly2]

'A little bit of butter and no cheese.'

Yellowhammer

[Malachite]

Ummmm. Crows are very intelligent, they like to have fun!
(ps. are you going to Glastonbury this year?)

[Malachite]

Tilly. That's my ringtone :-)

[JJ109]

I've had quite a few unusual birds in my garden recently. I live in Thailand and we are presently at the end of the dry season. We live in the countryside and our garden is like an oasis for the birds as we keep a large bucket of water in the shade of each tree. Must be 20 buckets altogether.
Anyway we have had a hoopoe visit twice and a dusky eagle owl once. Kingfishers are frequent visitors also as there is a klong (canal) in front of the house although at this time of year it is often dry. Unfortunately other frequent visitors include different varieties of hawks and harriers and eagles that prey on the other birds. They may be beautiful birds in their own right, but I don't like to see it!
At the golf course about two months ago I was also lucky to see an osprey over the water. What it was doing there, I do not know as they are not usually this far north in Thailand....probably was lost!

[waterboatman]

Several pairs of little birds use my back hedge as home. This year I have a pair of Blackbirds too. Not seen them before.

[10ClarionSt]

We've had a barn owl sat on our fence a couple of times lately but when I came back with my camera, it had gone. Still waiting for it's return!

[Rockrose]

A budgie!
Still trying to catch the bleeding thing 3 weeks after first spotting it.

[waterboatman]

Them budgies are crafty wee things.

[DTCwordfan]

plenty from ravens to sparrow hawks, 'tails, pies, robins and this morning there's a cuckoo....a pair of owls in one of the trees - and then there are the pheasants, zillions of them - and for the fauna, a young stag and his two roe deer.

[1ozzy]

Lot's of bird life in our backyard, from predators to the little pretty harm nothing birds.

The birds that annoy me are Sulphur-crested Cockatoos.

They are the teenagers of the bird world, noisy, argumentative, destructive, downright stubborn and know better than anyone !!!

But, there is something likeable about them.

[malagabob]

Happened to be looking out my kitchen window, and a Goldfinch flew up and hung on my neighbours wall for a few seconds. Haven’t seen on for years. It prompted me to do a search for pictures. Videos came back on how they trap them in Europe to sell as cage birds for their song.