The species listed here can often be seen on or below your bird table and feeders, in Britain, and depending on your location can be attracted to gardens using different types of food. It is quite likely that you will see other species in or over your Garden. These may include Magpies and other Crows and Gulls which will often visit UK Gardens for bread or another easy meal. In the winter you may be able to attract a wide variety of species, and in greater numbers. You can help many birds by feeding all year round but particularly in the winter when their natural food may become hard to find or unavailable. Seed eating finches often rely on bird tables and feeders in the early part of the year when their natural food is harder to find. You may well attract more unusual finches in winter such as Siskin and Brambling to seed feeders, peanuts, bird tables and feeding stations.

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Here is a selection of photographs of birds that might be regarded as common in many English or British Gardens depending on the time of year. For more pictures of some of the below species, see the index of bird photographs by clicking here. You can click on the the below images to go to the
main species pages for more images. All images on this site are Copyright © Richard Ford and are available for publication.
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Blue Tit
(Cyanistes caeruleus )

Greenfinch
(Carduelis chloris )

Goldfinch
(Carduelis carduelis)

Great Spotted Woodpecker
(Dendrocopos major)

Wood Pigeon
(Columba palumbus )

Coal Tit
(Periparus ater )

Common Chaffinch
(Fringilla coelebs)

Robin
(Erithacus rubecula )

Blackbird
(Turdus merula )

Collard Dove
(Streptopelia decaocto )

(Eurasian) Nuthatch
(Sitta europaea)

Great Tit
(Parus major)

House Sparrow
(Passer domesticus)

Starling
(Sturnus vulgaris)

Song Thrush
(Turdus philomelos )

Dunnock
(Prunella modularis )