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I agree. It's amazing what you do see in the city centre, and it's a great release from the stress of the urban life. In the tiny park in EC1 where I walk my dog in the morning, I've seen flocks of Long Tailed Tits, Goldfinches, and Greenfinches this week. Not so long ago I saw a Sparrowhawk and a Magpie squabbling over some prey on the road. Amazing as well that I can see the Peregrine nest site in the Barbican from my bedroom - when I was growing up in Northumberland, they were virtually extinct. Let's hope for another Waxwing Winter, last year I saw a large flock in the middle of Hackney.

I noticed when I was out in the country near Aylesbury that wayside woodland had lost all the red leaves which were there mixed with yellow a week ago - now there is only yellow. What is the reason for this?

This may be off topic but the loudest bird in the world question isn't the bell bird of the Amazon rainforest very loud.

When I was in Sheffield this summer I found this amazing (if slightly different) bird:

we have pied wagtails that come to my place of works courtyard as dusk come so do the birds.
They have been coming ever since i can remember a joy towatch and build nests in the plant pots
quiet friendly they are used to the humans sharing this place with them
hemel hempstead hertfordshire

Pied Wagtails have been roosting in trees in an internal courtyard of The Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath for many years. You can see them so clearly from the glass windowed corridor that runs along one side.

I can't see much from my office window - part of a wall and a car park - but I hear pigeons, magpies, wagtails, blue and great tits, and in the summer the screaming of swifts across the rooftops.

I unfortunately work in a room with "borrowed" light, so no outside view at all. However while in someone else's office this morning a seagull suddenly zoomed across the room. Apparently it had been found concussed at the back door and had been put in an aerated photocopy paper box to recuperate! I managed to catch it when it flew to the windowsill, hopefully they released it back to the outside a little later. That must be my most exciting experience of wildlife at work ever!

I work in the centre of Manchester, and I've seen some great wildlife there.
The rooftop car park where I park everyday has had a fantastic view of nesting and fledging peregrines. On the same car park I've seen a flock of several hundred pied wagtails, and a woodcock tucked away resting by a wall, presumably a migration stop off. I've seen big flocks of starlings, and redwings and fieldfares flying through. I've even seen an oystercatcher flying over, but assumed it was pretty lost :oD
Last week I was in the centre of Burnley and there was a flock of several hundred lapwings roosting on a roof right in the middle of the town - a very incongruous sight!

Back in secondary school (earlier this year, I'm in College now) My science class and English class seemed to be the best places to view wildlife (Yes I should have been working, but anyway) I had Sparrowhawk almost daily from my English class, Cormorants were surprisingly common along with the odd Heron. From Science I saw Swifts that came amazingly close to the building, loads of Pied Wagtails, Gulls and a Squirrel that used to come and sit on the building opposite. From other parts of the school I saw Goldfinch, Kestrel, Blue Tit, Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws, Blackbirds, a Lapwing during a fire drill and even a Peregrine when I was walking home once!

At the airport I work at we have several Swallows that nest in some of the passenger walkways, occasional Kestrels, and the odd Killer Whale - this was taken from the long-stay carpark >

we have partridges on the roof at work - surprising the racket they make.