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    Big Garden Birdwatch 2014

    A heads up that this year's RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch takes place over the weekend of 25/26 January.

    Why not spend an hour counting the birds in your garden / plot / park / farmland etc. and submit your results online.

    You can register via the RSPB's website and if you do then there is a £5 discount voucher for their online shop which is valid until 31 January.

    As in previous years please feel free to post your results here so we can share what visits our gardens and spaces.

    I'm hoping to spot Bob my roosting blue tit!
    The cats' valet.
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    Mrs snuffer has been taking part in the 'Big Garden Bird Watch' for the last four or five years (perhaps even longer, can't remember).

    Always interesting to see the results of what birds are visiting other peoples gardens.
    It is the doom of man, that they forget.

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    • #3
      I was so disappointed last year - the fieldfares and waxwings appeared in my garden after the event!
      Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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      • #4
        And here is the French one which Scarey found!
        http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tch_76511.html
        "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

        Location....Normandy France

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        • #5
          We'll certainly be doing it- and we're letting as many people we know hear about it- both here and in the UK!
          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

          Location....Normandy France

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          • #6
            We gets lots of birds all the year round in our garden, except the weekend of the big bird watch when they seem to desert us in droves.
            Its Grand to be Daft...

            https://www.youtube.com/user/beauchief1?feature=mhee

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            • #7
              Originally posted by arpoet View Post
              We gets lots of birds all the year round in our garden, except the weekend of the big bird watch when they seem to desert us in droves.
              That always seems to happen here as well
              Location....East Midlands.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by snuffer View Post
                Mrs snuffer has been taking part in the 'Big Garden Bird Watch' for the last four or five years (perhaps even longer, can't remember).
                Have been informed by Mrs snuffer that she has been doing the survey for the last eight years.

                2006 76 birds 19 species
                2007 65 birds 14 species
                2008 96 birds 19 species
                2009 84 birds 18 species
                2010 75 birds 15 species
                2011 85 birds 15 species
                2012 77 birds 13 species
                2013 100 birds 16 species
                2014 We'll have to wait and see. Will be doing the bird watch on Sunday.
                It is the doom of man, that they forget.

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                • #9
                  I can tell you now what will be in my garden. We live in a fairly leafy part of Ipswich, overlooked by one row of houses then fields beyond.

                  We'll definitely have:

                  Collared Doves
                  Black headed gulls
                  Magpies
                  Blackbirds
                  Woodpigeon
                  Robin

                  There is a remote possibility we'll see:

                  Wren
                  House Sparrow
                  Crow
                  Jay
                  Blue Tit
                  Great Tit

                  That's it !!

                  Where are the thrushes, all the different finches and warblers we used to see, plus the occasional bird of prey? Bird populations are seriously in decline in the UK
                  Are y'oroight booy?

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                  • #10
                    Its not a good weekend for the bird watch to much wind, rain and hailstones. we've not seen a single bird.
                    Location....East Midlands.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by arpoet View Post
                      We gets lots of birds all the year round in our garden, except the weekend of the big bird watch when they seem to desert us in droves.
                      Yup! Same here! Today 2 magpies and a wood pigeon
                      You may say I'm a dreamer... But I'm not the only one...


                      I'm an official nutter - an official 'cropper' of a nutter! I am sooooo pleased to be a cropper! Hurrah!

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                      • #12
                        Bren / Ancee - I know that feeling - I have to do my watch in two separate halves as I can't see some of my garden / feeders from the house. I spent the first hour between 9am and 10am this morning in the garden and go rained on 4 times. Fortunately the really stormy weather has just arrived.

                        The RSPB would still like to hear fom you even if your answers are zero. All the info together helps put up the bigger picture.

                        I have tried to determine the last date for submission - the survey doesn't close usually until mid Feb...
                        The cats' valet.

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                        • #13
                          16th Feb is the submision deadline...
                          The cats' valet.

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                          • #14
                            I saw:
                            1 x Great tit
                            2 x Buzzards
                            2 x Blue tits
                            1 x Nuthatch
                            3 x Jays
                            8 x Sparrows
                            2 x Blackbirds
                            And... believe it or not 1 x Cormorant 550 metres up in the middle of France!

                            I have a conspiracy theory though. I think that word goes around the bird population that this is the counting Weekend and they all hide! I imagine them sitting in the bushes together, hiding and tittering behind unfolded wings!
                            A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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                            • #15
                              I didn't manage to do mine this weekend, sad about that but needed to be elsewhere with the dog. And to cap it all the most popular bird feeders - red berry suet and sunflower hearts - got emptied in double quick time today so I know the tits, starlings and goldfinches have been extra busy today.
                              Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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