Big Garden Birdwatch

[biggs682]

silly question how far in to the air does my garden extend upward as we have had a Heron fly over !!

 

[Glow worm]

silly question how far in to the air does my garden extend upward as we have had a Heron fly over !!

I could be wrong but I think you can only count the birds that land in your garden rather than fly over/ past for this survey. A couple of lapwing flew over during my survery which would have been good to include!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Great tit on the keyboard.

Anyone else 'likes' this and you'll only be helping an OAP in Brighton towards getting a punch up the bracket.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Booklet in today's Telegraph, Guide to 100 Birds of Britain. Not that I buy The Telegraph of course...

 

[rich p]

silly question how far in to the air does my garden extend upward as we have had a Heron fly over !!

see post #9

 

[Sara_H]

We've just put a feeder up today, no takers yet.
How long does it usually take them to find it?

 

[deanE]

My second year of doing the survey. Last year I think all the birds in the neighbourhood paid us a visit but much quieter today. mainly because new housing estate been built directly at the back, whereas last year there was open uncultivated fields.

 

[Poacher]

Anyone else 'likes' this and you'll only be helping an OAP in Brighton towards getting a punch up the bracket.

Sorry, couldn't help adding an extra like.
We've had a Fieldfare resident for the last 6 days, feeding on apples which I gathered from roadside trees last month or so. At dusk last Monday there were about a dozen, but this one has hung around, gradually building confidence to the extent that it doesn't fly off when I open the back door, and has tyrannised the resident male Blackbird which usually rules the roost. What's the betting it finds pastures new tomorrow when we do the birdwatch - the fields will be free of snow, judging by the heavy rain we're now getting, so it'll probably fancy a change of diet. We haven't seen the overwintering female Blackcap in the last few days - I wonder if it fell victim to a Sparrowhawk - there was a male plucking and eating a small bird on the snowy lawn a few days ago, and there's been no sign of the New Year's Day Chiffchaffs. Anticipating a boringly low count again. Dammit!

 

[Crankarm]

I saw a nice pair of tits today, 2 birds together.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

We've just put a feeder up today, no takers yet.
How long does it usually take them to find it?

I buy wild bird seeds, spread them on the ground. Don't want to put up a feeder in case the cats stalk it.

 

[laurence]

i don't have a garden, but as i walked out of my block of flats i saw 2 pied wagtails.

i can't really count the london wetland centre birds as my own. shame, as it is my substitute garden.

 

[dellzeqq]

regulars

and they appear to be devoted to each other

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just saw a pair of goldcrests flitting about between conifers in Deptford! Never seen them in town before. Actually, scrub that, I've never seen them anywhere. Shame I didn't see them yesterday, I'd have had something to report to the RSPB.

 

[Archie_tect]

We get a lesser spotted woodpecker in our garden along with wrens, a nuthatch and large groups of blue-tits and jackdaws. Loads of blackbirds and magpies about, but haven't seen house sparrows or thrushes for years now.

 

[theclaud]

We get a lesser spotted woodpecker in our garden along with wrens, a nuthatch and large groups of blue-tits and jackdaws. Loads of blackbirds and magpies about, but haven't seen house sparrows or thrushes for years now.

In Northumberland? That's probably worth letting your county recorder know about.