We are very fortunate where we live, an isolated set of rural and barely habitated valleys tucked below Exmoor and at a slight altitude.
Little of the land is cultivated, it's primarily sheep grazing so not much in the way of herbacides has ever been or are used, and the land still retains many Saxon field hedge boundaries and measures, pretty much unchanged for the last 1000 years or so.
The wild life, and the variety of birds, are simply stunning for such a small spot.
We have had Buzzards nesting in the trees directly opposite our house for the last 20 years, even seen them mating, and just about every other raptor other than eagles can occasionally be seen, Peregrines, Sparrow Hawks and even Hobbies. Owls are plentyful, Little Owls, Tawnies (which are busy toowhitting and toowhooing as I type) and Barns. In the summer we even have Nightjars in the field behind our house though I've only ever heard them, not seen them. It is dark around here, real country dark....
Kingfishers regularly visit our stream to catch the Millers Thumbs and tiny Brook Trout, I've even held several in my hands over the years as they sometimes fly into our downstairs windows and stun themselves, unfortunately sometimes fatally (Haven't had one do that for a while but I send the dead ones off to a department at Exeter University).
We also have a gang of long tailed tits each day on the feeders, and just about every other member of the Tit and Finch families, as well as flocks of Fieldfares over winter. We've had a ringed Ouzel in the garden for a day early last year, a Sandpiper probing the mud around the edges of the pond about 10 years ago, a little Egret in the trees for a day, and even a lonely Stork flying over for a week or so, well off course. We also have elusive Water Rails around the pond as well as the usual Moorhens and Mallards, though since it's silted up, not quite as many as we used to. For about 10 years after we first moved here, we used to have a pair of Canada geese turn up (the same pair each year) that nested on the island in the pond and became quite tame with us. It was quite touching, on the day before they would leave with their young, they would without fail always come up from the pond and all troop around the house, almost as if to let us know, before going into the field to take off. We called the male one Gary, he was very big, but he was great with our kids when they were small, no aggression at all and happy and very gentle being fed bread by hand by them. Unfortunately, the pond silted up badly one year after a severe storm washed a load of silt down from up the valley, and it made the island a little less secure from foxes so one year they just didn't come back. They may well have been shot of course in the great cull.
We don't seem to have Cuckoos anymore though. We used to hear them every year until about 6 years ago and now they seem to have gone, although like the Kingfishers and even a Swallow once, I have held one in my hand that had stunned itself before recovering and flying off. Swallows and Martins return each year, the peak about 9 years ago was 8 Martins nests on the house (we have a man who comes every year and records them all) although last year we only had one brood that was successful, the worst year since we moved here, though I'm suspecting the raptors are responsible for their demise, probably the Peregrines though Hobbies can take Martins too. The Swifts tend to stay in the Church tower in the village a few miles away.
Woodpeckers are also quite frequent, Greater and Lesser Spotted (! yes) as well as Green, and Treecreepers, Mistlethrushes, Nuthatches, Wrens, Flycatchers and Grey and Pied Wagtails are also a not uncommon sight. There is even a solitary Raven that lurks with the Crows sometimes, and the usual gang of hooligan Magpies, some very big indeed on roadkill, and also a few Jays on our Oak trees. beautifully coloured birds that can also be brilliant mimics. I met a woman years ago who had one as a pet she'd raised from an abandoned fledgling, and had successfully taught it to speak as well as any Parrot I've ever heard.
If I get the chance, I'll try and take photos of the more interesting stuff and post them on here.