That time of year again, the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, one of the world’s biggest exercises in citizen science. The usual drill: one hour of birding in the garden, with the counts being the maximum seen at one time.
blue tit × 3
great tit × 2
coal tit
long-tailed tit
chaffinch × 3
goldfinch
woodpigeon × 2
pigeon × 4
magpie × 3
blackbird × 3
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My list for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch:
Blue tit 3
Great tit 2
Long-tailed tit 2
Chaffinch 2
Robin 2
Dunnock 1
Magpie 1
Carrion crow 4
Green woodpecker 1
Town pigeon 4
Woodpigeon 2
Sparrowhawk 1
Which is basically pretty rubbish — it was very quiet today — but is livened up by a couple of decent species: sparrowhawk, which is increasingly common around here but by [...]
It’s that time of year again. I haven’t been looking forward to it particularly because it has just been a rubbish year for birds in the garden. I don’t know why. I’m not sure we’ve ever had quite as many birds since we moved all the feeders onto a pole in open space nearer the [...]
I did the annual RSPB garden birdwatch yesterday. This was my third time and by far my worst list yet. Not because of any catastrophic decline in birds, but just because I had a rather dud hour. It didn’t help that I did it at midday, which is never the best time for birds.
Despite the [...]
If you’re in the UK, there’s still time to do the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2006 this weekend. Just watch your garden or local park for an hour, record all the bird species and what the maximum number you saw at one time was, and submit the results to the RSPB.
This year I saw:
blue tit [...]
I just took part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2005.
If you’re living in Britain, there’s still time to take part – you can do it today or tomorrow. My list (numbers are maximum seen at once):
great tit – 4
blue tit – 9
coal tit – 1
greenfinch – 2
chaffinch – 2
nuthatch – 1
robin – 2
starling – [...]