https://www.reddit.com/r/Belfast/comments/1ig1un6/native_garden_birds/
created by Leading-Twist6749 on 02/02/2025 at 17:04 UTC
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Moved here last year.. started leaving bird food out… absolutely love looking at the Robins , also get Blackbirds male & females & starlings …. Just wondering what other varieties people have seen?
Comment by Belfastian_1985 at 02/02/2025 at 19:51 UTC
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I get sparrows, great tits, blue tits, starlings, magpies, wren, collared doves and wood pigeons. I got 2 window boxes and it’s brilliant seeing them up close.
Comment by A_Dissident_Is_Here at 02/02/2025 at 21:04 UTC
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I’m not local, but lived in Belfast for four years during my PhD and was an RSPB volunteer (and an Audubon one here back in the States). Belfast has so many fantastic garden birds! If you haven’t, I think the big Christmas bird count is over now, but next year you should email RSPB and they’ll give you a ton of guidance for a fun birdwatching list!
Maybe not the best garden bird, but I was lucky enough to see a hunting peregrine above the botanic gardens once, and a (I’m assuming a little lost) hen harrier over Lagan meadows
Comment by Head-Foundation-5761 at 02/02/2025 at 17:29 UTC
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Put our Niger seeds and you'll probably get Gold Finches
Comment by Kaaskop71 at 02/02/2025 at 19:24 UTC
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Love my 'gang'. Every day they( 6 blackbirds, few pigeons, many starlings, wrens, sparrows, 3 squirrels, robin, twice a sparrow hawk) for food that I leave out. I love watching them. I put out sheep wool recently
Comment by cookiemunster27 at 02/02/2025 at 20:24 UTC
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No one get any Redwings or Fieldfares this year? Haven’t seen any in years..
Comment by marceemarcee at 02/02/2025 at 17:24 UTC
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House sparrows, collared doves, the odd finch (various). Mostly that.
Comment by cowboysted at 02/02/2025 at 17:31 UTC
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We get lots because we're right beside Ormeau Park and put our nuts and fat balls. We get the usual crowd plus coal tits, goldfinches, blue tits, various different sparrowy things (to use the technical term) and a few very fat wood pigeons. One of which flew into my window this morning as I opened the front door.
Comment by volsung37 at 02/02/2025 at 23:13 UTC
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Dunnocks, various tits, robin, resident pair of blackbirds, magpies, hooded crows, jackdaws, mistle thrush,sparrows, herring gulls and the odd buzzard flying high overhead. I live in the shadow of Cavehill in north Belfast
Comment by DimensionAdept9840 at 02/02/2025 at 18:27 UTC
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Yeah I love seeing all the birds coming to the garden. We get lots of blackbirds, blue and great tits, occasionally goldfinches and as a very rare treat some bull finches. Not forgetting little Jenny Wren of course.
Comment by notanadultyadult at 03/02/2025 at 16:28 UTC
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I’m not much in to birds but I had a pheasant walking about outside my window one day.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/02/2025 at 18:24 UTC
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Comment by Leading-Twist6749 at 02/02/2025 at 18:28 UTC
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I’m going to google these so I can keep a check.. did see one or two with streak of yellow colour but did not know what it was
Comment by jesuis_lenuit at 02/02/2025 at 19:52 UTC
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I had the following in April/May last year. Cornell Uni have an app called Merlin which id's birdsong and makes it easier to identify some of them.
Blackbird Starling Robin Sparrow Chaffinch Goldfinch Wood pigeon Rock pigeon Collared dove Song thrush Mistle thrush Wren Goldcrest Great tit Blue tit Blackcap Dunnock
Also have the usual gulls and have a long term family of magpies. Watched them raise 3 chicks in my garden this past year.
Comment by Leading-Twist6749 at 02/02/2025 at 20:25 UTC
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I think I had a redwing …..
Comment by kumran at 02/02/2025 at 22:40 UTC
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We get a gang of long tailed tits, a bunch of robins, bluetits, loads of starlings, house sparrows, pigeons, goldfinches, magpies, bullfinches (six at once one time!) and some other tits that are hard to tell apart.
Comment by MathematicianSad8487 at 03/02/2025 at 16:32 UTC
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Great tits . Yellow tits . Goldfinch . Wrens. Sparrows .
Comment by SmoothArea1206 at 03/02/2025 at 18:04 UTC
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South Belfast I've seen a variety of birds from the tit family pretty sure I had a family of coal tit's living in a hole in the wall of the shed for a few years.
Sparrows, magpies, wood pigeons and starlings are common too.
If you are by the Lagan then there are Kingfishers too, I've also seen herons if you follow the Lagan through Dixon park and the golf course.
Long eared owls have been seen too (they are the most common owl in Ireland.
Barnsley owls have also been spotted around the Castle and Zoo
