Rspb garden watch 2011

Hi all

just found this link, quick registration for 10% online discounts as well as free watchpack.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/?mediacode=T08ITH0124&=23153

 

I do this survey every year even though it's the quietest time of the year in the garden for birds! (unless there's heavy frost or snow)

 

I also do this survey most of the birds are the same ones but it does give an idea what is going on,
What about all these birds in the world dropping down dead strange anyone got any idea`s

 

Thanks for the reminder Pip.

 

The latest theory regarding the blackbirds in the USA is fireworks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12105157

 

My garden watch was a bit disappointing this year with the number of species down a bit on last year.
However goldfinches and green finches were new species to be counted - though possibly at the expense of the number of chaffinches.
Blackbird - 2
Bluetit - 1
Collared dove -2
Dunnock - 1
Goldfinch - 5
Greenfinch - 3
House sparrow - 8
Robin - 1
Starling - 20
A sparrowhawk flew through with about 15 minutes of observation left and suddenly there were no birds to be seen!

The situation was exacerbated by this whacking great raptor that decided to perch on a gravestone just over our garden wall:DOH:
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My count was down because the cat from down the road decided to sit underneath the bird table and kept returning no matter how many times I shooed him off. Still, I did well on woodpigeons this year - no less than six. All of them, I suspect, benefit scroungers who do nothing all day except pinch the best bits from the table.

 

Unfortunately I didn't do any watching as I was working during daylight hours on both days

 

We very rarely have more than four different birds at any one time so six in the hour was a good count.
Starling, Blue Tit, Wood Pigeon, Robin, House Sparrow Chaffinch.
Nice Buzzard Dave.

 

I didn't do it this year. I will definetly do it next year. Going on my garden in the past couple of days.

Sparrows 26
Starlings 15
Blue tits 2
Collared Doves 6
Blackbirds 3
Robins 1
Dunnock 2

 

About the same time next year Armand.