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'Don't talk with your mouth full.' And it's a lesson this fieldfare might want to take note of if he doesn't want to lose his rather juicy-looking berry! Fieldfares are winter visitors to the UK and a very common sight in gardens at the moment - whether you're digging yourself...

The snow : Is going in to the garden and seeing all the bird and animal prints in it the next morning and trying to figure out what they are and following them to see what they've been up to !! then photographing them and searching through books at bird and animal footprints and trying to identify...

Hi, I have a kingfisher nest at the bottom of my road, its lovely and i see the kingfisher at least twice a week. and often hovering or flying in wide circles arround me. But i'm a little worried about the site its chosen. As it is (i think) under a bridge on an access road to a fishing lake and...

I just wanted to let you know about a just-for-fun bird race I am running.... It is a six-hour event for you go out with friends and family to spot as many bird species as possible in that time within a county. I am arranging this purely in the hope of getting people outdoors and enjoying themselves...

I haven't taken many pics in recent months of the birds that visit my garden, but have started again, and thought I'd post a few. Nothing exciting, I'm afraid. No rare species, but I'm always thrilled to see any birds coming here. They're so wonderful to watch. Sorry the pics aren't...

Save £2 on a 350 g pouch of RSPB Peck 'n' Mix bird food. Was £3.49 - Now just £1.49 RSPB Peck 'n' Mix is an irresistible bird food and delectable blend of dried mealworms (beetle larvae), juicy raisins and suet-based ‘Buggy nibbles’ (suet nibbles with...

I've just received a mail from CleverMatrix stating they are giving away 50 IPhone 'Birds of Britain' apps, to the first 50 emails they receive all you need to do is email them at birdspromo@clevermatrix.com and the first 50 emails will receive a code to download the app for FREE! make that...

My friend and I have just returned home from a lovely week spent in North Wales. We love going to Porthmadog, Llanberis, Caernarfon and other nearby places, and went to a few places on Anglesey too. During our travels we managed to take a few photos of some of the various birds we spotted. Some in fields...

My friend and I have just come back from spending a few lovely days in North Wales. Whilst going for a walk near Pentraeth on Anglesey we saw this beautiful bird of prey sitting on a wall and took some photos of it. We're not very good at identifying different birds of prey, but someone we showed...

We have some great new offers today. Get a box of 6x 100g pouches of Dried Mealworms for only £10 ! That's a massive saving of £19.94 off the price of 6 individual packs. Sunflower drops reduced to just £1.99 . These suet coated sunflower hearts were £3.49, you...

I would be very surprised if it was a hoopoe but you never know. I once saw one in Spain while playing golf, a very distinctive bird and beautiful to see.

I tried to use the Bird Ident on here but it didn't show anything that looked like the wee visitor we have been getting for a few days. It looks like a sparrow in size, mannerisms and even colour. But instead of having stripey wings (black and brown) he is spotty almost like a leapord! I have...

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Right now you can save £5 off all our 12.75 kg sacks of RSPB bird seed and seed mixes. The RSPB's Feed the Birds Day takes place on Saturday 29 October 2011. This special day reminds us about all the things we can do to help birds and other garden wildlife through the winter. Birds really...

We have a fantastic new offer starting today. Spend £35 and get a pack of ten mealworm variety RSPB Super suet cakes HALF PRICE. This is a whopping £9.50 saving! These versatile suet cakes are great for a wide variety of garden birds. They are specially designed to be non-sticky, so...

Autumn's here which means apples, berries, pears – and some rather drunk animals. Here we look at the wildlife that benefits from this season's fruit crop. The hedgerows are bursting with berries now, providing food for both people and animals. Blackberries give energy to animals such...

I don't mean The Wire TV series (although apparently it's brilliant). I mean the real one: telegraph and phone wires. Because this weekend they could be getting very busy as house martins and swallows show off their tightrope balancing skills. My bird book, Birds of Britain and Europe , says...

Taken at the Fen Hide on Monday, it was wiith a pied wagtail and never seemed bothered by me snapping away at them.

Taken at the River Ugie Peterhead.

I am always pointing out bird songs to my non birding golfing partners and was delighted when one of them said to me, "is that a great spotted woodpecker I can hear?" and it was. Success, another golfer who uses her ears as well as her eyes.

My sister has a beautiful, if possessive, pair of mistle thrushes. They guard her bird table and cotoneaster berries, often attacking any other bird hoping to dash in for a quick snack.

My friendly Robin visits every morning for his fix of meal worms and thistle seeds. He appeared just after I left a handful of fresh food out for him as it was thick frost this morning. I love that he returns every day.

We were walking through a car park near the Thames and my 11 year old daughter yelled, "A Kingfisher!" Sure enough a kingfisher had landed near us. We watched him dive for fish. I was so happy that she had spotted him and knew he was special!

What were the chances of that? The tiny beak popped out of the eggshell just as I walked past. Welcome to the world!

It was hard to believe that such a small, delicate bird would soon be flying out over Land's End and across the sea. No wonder it didn't seem in a hurry.

I stand on the beach and the blizzard of snow buntings swirls past me on the sea breeze. Keep still, don't breathe, don't make a sound. Suddenly they're flying towards me and then they're at my feet, looking at me. A big moment with a small bird.