Welcome to the GardenBird Summer Photo Competition. It’s simple. All you have to do is submit your best photo (only one photo per entry) of a garden bird in the comments section below before 1st August 2017, entering your full name and email address. You’ll then be in with a chance of winning one of three fabulous prizes:
1st prize: 25kg Ultiva® Gold (worth £48.49)
2nd prize: 12.5kg Ultiva® Gold (worth £27.99)
3rd prize: 4kg Ultiva® v (worth £13.49)
One photo per entrant only. The winners will be announced in the 2017 Autumn catalogue, the blog and via social media. Entrants must be 18 and over and reside within UK mainland. Images must not be greater than 1mb in size.
If you do have difficulty uploading your photo, please submit via email here.
Ever mindful of the neighbour’s cat.
Parakeets in our garden
My friendly Robin visitor
This guy was watching me as much as I watched him.
Great tit in our Acer tree
This chap visits almost every day
Beautiful shot of the Robin
this Kingfisher came & perch right next to me while i was otter watching on the river Wye
At least my garden birds are safe for a while
A beautiful Visitor.
A chance encounter with a greedy blackbird at Longleat Safari Park last month, he was so tame and cramming in those meal worms! A shot not to be missed!
grumpy bird says wheres my breakfast
Our robin who likes to eat from our hands!
A true picture of spring, taken at Kew Gardens
Two wise owlets
These 2 Tawny owlet fledglings were perched in our garden tree….
I looked up and thought what is that funny fluffy stuff in our tree? Through my binoculars, & to my delight, I found it was these two beautiful fellows!
Feeding the Family
Greater Spotted Woodpecker visiting our garden
Mum cant feed these guys fast enough!
This robin is frond of you!
Busy day in the garden with lots of birds, but this Black bird’s “sign reading” was a classic. They are still one of the main visitors every day from 1st light through to the early evening.
“I’ve got my eye on you”
Glorious goldfinch in our blossom tree
There was I, dozing on my deck chair & I heard a noise!
What on earth is it I thought?
Imagine my surprise when I noticed this beautiful ‘Cricket’ having a breather…..
Daily visitors to my garden are the jackdaws. They raise their young here every year.
The robin is asking why I haven’t topped up the suet pellets.
These Long tailed tits were forming an orderly line for the bird feeder
Did you bring titbits please?
Baby starlings squabbling for a titbit.
Delighted to see a woodpecker at the bird feeder!
A first time visitor to our garden a Black Cap, cooling off on a hot day
Mrs Blackbird enjoys her daily bath
Hungry nuthatch
Blue Tit
Mummy thrush sharing breakfast
Lots of starlings visit us on a daily basis. Their colours are beautiful
This Greater Spotted Woodpecker is a regular visitor to our garden to enjoy a suet ball
A well fed blue tit.
At first glance I thought it was a Goldcrest, but I soon realised it was something far more unusual: an orange-capped Blue Tit. According to the RSPB, it is a plumage abnormality called ‘flavism’ that results in an excess of orange pigmentation. Apparently it is extremely rare, the lady I spoke to at The British Trust for Ornithology has never seen one.
Blue Tits and Long Tailed Tits love the fat blocks, and we often find that there is a traffic jam with birds waiting to get on the feeder.
Robin collecting food for a young Robin on our Patio
Immature magpie. Just after this photo was taken he stuck his tongue out at me!
Summer photo competition entry.
Sunday evening stroll with our yorky came across this goldfinch overhead Darwen lancashire
Curious and ever so fluffy.
A bad landing in a friend’s garden!!! successfully launched after taking this image
The magpie terrorising the cat!
We are not too sure what these two pied wagtails are doing??
Woodpecker enjoying suet balls on a sunny July afternoon
This is my woody he follows me around and as you can see he is just arriving for his afternoon snack.
This Sparrowhawk was sitting on my garden table hoping for lunch!
Ready & waiting to explore the world