Just seen a ...

[cupid04]

Jay fly over my garden. Landed in a tree about two gardens away. Got quite
excited, they are quite a rarity where I live. I live in a rural village but there is
no woodland close by. I thought they were mainly woodland birds.

[tonyav]

yep, a great photo, lovely looking bird.

[ladybirder]

Survival of the fittest I'm afraid.

[gness]

Lucky Cupid. Beautiful bird.

D97. Fabulous photo!

[tonyav]

gness, you know how I like a ' beautiful bird '.

[scrummyyummy]

Jays often come into our garden! They are very nice looking birds, especially the blue on them. We also have woodpeckers and they are a lovely colour too. What we have too many of are magpies which I'm not too keen on.

[gness]

So once again I say..."Lucky Cupid!" Tonyx

[askyourgran]

We have quite a few magpies around here I hate them, they usually raid the blackbirds nests. A couple of months ago my garden was full of light coloured feathers (I thought the angels were here). There was a sparrow hawk in the garden, it had one of the collared doves in its talons, almost as big as the sparrow hawk. I don't know how it had the energy to fly off with it.

[cupid04]

I appreciate all the birds we get in our garden, but the jay was a rare treat.
Most of the time we only get:- starlings, sparrows, collared doves, wood pigeons, blackbirds, blue tits, robins and mr.c thought he saw a green finch
yesterday. We used to get loads of them until a few years back. Don't see
many song thrushes now either[often used to know you had a thrush in the
garden because of the tapping [the thrush would be picking up a snail and
dropping it and then proceding to eat his meal! Also get the occasional wagtail.

[carrust]

Doing very well in our area at the moment. There's an osprey in the Rotherham area, a bee eater has been seen on the moors & I'm off tomorrow evening to see a pair of peregrines that are nesting in the city centre.