Aww I like Robins, they are cute

My neighbour had blue tits - they are lovely

yeah i like Robins
all the birds i see are black or brown

Thanks for the link, Ceiron, you're brill, but none of the ones on the first few pages were right.... size ok, the American version is the closest but the pics show the colour as more of a yellow, this one looked like it had been Tango'd, or got too close to a child's paint pot it was as orange as you can get!
Maybe it's got sunburn after all this hot weather here!!

The next shock I got was a close encounter with a hare - the size of a wallaby! Lovely rich reddish colour, I thought it was a young fox until it hopped!

It's like living on a nature reserve here. About 95% of farming is animals so there is no spraying of the hedgerows. My field where the house is being built is full of orchids over the summer, some 4 foot high, and strange bog plants.

No doubt there will be more sightings of birds I have never seen before..... taking bookings for B&B next year for all you twitchers out there!

Sounds brilliant
used to be some great countryside round here until an industrial estate was built in the early 90s

http://www.birdphotography.co.uk/BaltimoreOrioleB.jpg

liek this ?

Body exactly that - shape right, too - but head was white with black on top. Maybe it flew into a freshly painted fence!
If the file name of that is correct, it's a long way from home though

how do you know

She showed them to me

Actually she had hold of one in the garden a few weeks ago, stroking it

Guess it was no longer a 'blue tit' then

It may of been a goldfinch, but without seeing a photo of it, it's hard to tell (and to take a pic to )

Living in the countryside, we get loads of different types of birds. There's thrushes, swallows, blue and great tits, chaffinches, sparrows, magpie, kestrels, sparrow hawks, the list is endless.

Sounds to me to be a chaffinch