RSPB Garden Birdwatch 29th-31st January

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  1. Dan

    DannyWilsonLovechild Well-Known Member

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    For anyone who gets feathered friends in their garden and wants to take part, this weekend is the RSPB garden birdwatch.

    You just spend an hour looking out for birds in your garden and then record the highest number you see at any given time.

    Link is here for anyone interested, Big Garden Birdwatch | Join the fun - The RSPB
     
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    Was hoping for some words of wisdom from @Stephen Dawson on this one lol
     
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    Already got the pack, I'll be sitting down to enjoy my feathered friends for an hour tomorrow
     
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    Yup, we're taking part in it.
     
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    Us too
     
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    what if you have not got a big garden?
     
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    We have a small garden, but still get plenty of birds visiting.
     
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    we only get sparrows and starlings,do I need to put food out?, might do a hour
     
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    I put food out because I enjoy it and love seeing the birds. What's wrong with sparrows & starlings?
     
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    If you click on the rspb link, there are tips, guides and resources on there to help you, but they are keen for as many to keep count as possible so they can build up a wide area of bird populations and any changes.

    Every little helps.
     
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    Ours isn't big but I only know wood pigeons, blackbirds, magpies, and that's it! The rest are just varying sizes of brown birds, sometimes with a pink chest which I think are chaffinchs? And I know robins.
     
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    We're doing it. Going to get up early tomorrow. We get great tits, blue tits, long-tailed tits, goldfinch, blackbirds, robins, dunnocks, house sparrows, magpies, wood pigeons and starlings.
    Not all at once....
     
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    On the subject of birds how common is it to see an owl at midday? Saw one yesterday on our dog walk.
     
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    Theres a guide on the website to help identify birds Helen, theres not that many varieties you're likely to see in an hour slot.
     
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    I often like to Gander at a nice pair of Tits.
     
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    Depends where you are but they are generally busier at night. Though I've seen a couple in the day, but in woodland well away from civilisation.

    I love owls, very envious.
     
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    That's my boy
     
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    Brilliant! Such beautiful birds.
    My particular favourite bird never visits, understandably so.:)
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    Got our pack.

    Going to do our watch on Sunday.
     
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    We get parakeets quite a bit now, have they made it to Yorkshire yet?
     
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