While having a conversation about birds of prey with @Wood-Nymph and @Hannahnim I thought it would be a nice topic to discuss in its own thread and hoped others might join in too. Seeing as there’s only 6 references to birdwatching when searched I hope we can at least double its mention.
Even add photos to the https://lovehoneyforum.com/t/images-to-share-in-topics/259586
And suggest nice places to go for birding, coffee and cake.
Official I now open the Lovehoney Ornithologists’ Club
My first shoutout is for this little gem.
It’s close to Dunkeld with some good hotels and restaurants and eateries, tons of walks and history to keep you amused.
I have bird feeders in my garden and have resident wood pigeons, one of which I call Adidas cos his neck marking is like the Adidas triangular logo. Plenty of sparrows, a few bluetits, a couple of robins and a shed load of starlings especially when I use mealworms in the seed mix. Had a jay recently too as well as magpies. Also have squirrels who are comical stealing fat balls bigger than their heads!
We have squirrels that use our feeders as their takeaway outlet.
I will add i liken the starlings to unruly teenagers! Also had a solitary ring necked dove recently.
Wow 
They were well known where I grew up but down see them as often if at all know I think about it where I live now.
Never had one here before, had to look it up to make sure it wasn’t a young pigeon.
What a lovely topic! @Long-John-Silver
We have all the usual suspects visit our garden such as blackbirds, robins, tits of all types, sparrows, woodpigeon, crows, magpies, goldfinch, plus jays, woodpeckers both green and spotted and the occasional sparrowhawk.
We do hear owls a lot but have yet to actually see one. Because we live close to a park that has a lake we sometimes get a moorhen or duck wandering in! We’ve had pheasants too.
We used to get loads of starlings years ago but haven’t spotted any around for a long time.
Other wildlife that are regulars are squirrels and foxes. Hedgehogs sometimes and on two occasions a badger! Oh and bats aswell.
I got rid of my birdfeeders last week. I now have sparkly, spinny things in my garden.
I’m not interfering with an aircraft (drone), I’m just making it very, very difficult to film our garden 
Was watering my containers earlier and the sparrows weren’t in the least bit bothered by my presence!
I used to live in Contra Costa County,CA, where Golden eagles were a common sight because of the fish that lived in the bay.
About once a week we have wild Roe Deer in the garden.
We went there last year, lovely area and a great little reserve.
If you’re local to Lowes check out Penny Hedge, where you can rent their hide to view Red Squirrels and Pine Martens.
RSPB Arne is a favourite, and a fab cafe usually.
For anybody interested, here’s the website with directions
In the area where I live, we get alot of ravens. Depending on time of year, I’ve had robins, Bluejays, mourning doves etc. Along the highways it’s common to see turkey vultures, bald eagles and even Golden Eagles (huge birds) preying on roadkill. We also get herons, osprey, various hawks etc along the rivers and forests.
Lots of other wildlife too including elk, whitetail deer, mule deer, moose, black bear, grizzly bear, mountain lions etc etc. Being in the mountains of western Canada, there is no shortage of wildlife here.
We have quite a few of the ringed necked doves. Some of them live in an old Hawthorne tree at the bottom of our garden, which is also home to a a large number of birds. We also have red kites flying about and I sometimes put out of date sliced meat out for them in the field behind us. They are huge birds when seen up close when they swoop down to get it.
Round our way is crawling with pheasants. Some are brave enough to come in the garden looking for bird seed, others get to know when they hear shooting to hide in the bushes in our garden. For several years we had a beautiful golden pheasant come into our garden and would let me get really close to feed him.
A couple of months ago I was following on local social media the escapades of 5 peacocks that were running loose from a farm near work. A lot of people weren’t happy with them perching on their cars!
That’s some serious poop.
Several of the above, plus the occasional curlew and cuckoo. Real ’ stop still’ moments.
We’re addicted to the Merlin app when we go out walking