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This weekend is the annual Big Garden Birdwatch, which this year has been extended to give an extra day.
And no you don't have to have a big garden (or any garden) to take part.
1. Watch the birds in your garden or local park for one hour.
2. Only count the birds that land in your garden or park, not those flying over.
3. The same birds may land more than once. To avoid counting them twice. Please submit the highest number you see of each bird species at any one time in the hour-not the total number you count over the hour.
4. Enter your results at rspb.org.uk/birdwatch.
You can also submit details of other wildlife that visits your garden or park.
Its great fun for children and helps to connect them to nature.
Let me know how you get on?
On it. Well, kids are on it tomorrow am.
cheers, bunnyhop, will do!
Bump.
I'll get the usual, Wood Pigeons, Collared Doves, Tree Spuggies, Robin(s), Blue/Great Tits, Blackbird
A Chaffinch
A Wren
Maybe a Long Tailed Tit & a Coal Tit
4 Feeders & that's what I get. Been feeding them on decent food for 4 years. 🙄
Fabulous event.
1 hour isn't enough.
Esselgruntfuttock -that's a good list by most peoples standards.
Do you have a mature tree or a fruit tree, pond, or a wild area? All these things encourage many different species.
We get about 30 goldfinch. Still love them 🙂
My list isn't too bad:
Dunnock. 2
Blackbird. 2
Wood pigeon. 1
Ferel pigeon. 4
Greenfinch. 3
Great tit. 1
Robin. 2
Nuthatch. 1
Blue tit. 3
Bullfinch. 3
Longtailed tits. 2
I think there is a problem with the rspb site. It may have crashed.
We get mainly Finches, loads of them - have three feeders and they can all be busy at the same time..
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I loaded mine early this morning, 7am.
I had loads in the garden but nothing different to the residents that come along for a feed.
Ah yes goldfinch. We had 9. I forgot to put them on the list above.
They go through at least 1 feeder per day.
We used to get lots of Tits, but I've not seen any for ages. I wonder is switching to sun flower hearts as the main feed has put them off?
1 hour isn't enough.
True! We regularly see most of those on Essel's list (spuggies though ???) plus nuthatch, bullfinch, egret, songthrush and dunnocks.
In my hour on Saturday I saw robins and blackbirds and nowt else!