Remember to get tweeting and twittering this weekend!
Over the weekend of 30-31 January the RSPB is running their annual Big Garden Birdwatch. ( See RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch for more details ). In conjunction with this we will once again run our own Alsop, Ballidon, Pikehall and Parwich Little Garden Birdwatch. Whilst the RSPB want to know numbers of different bird species seen during a one hour period we simply what to know what species have been seen over the weekend in and around the villages. There will be a post to log sightings available over the weekend. For anyone doubtful of their bird recognition skills the RSPB site is pretty good, where you can find an A-Z Guide and useful tools to help identify a specific bird sighting.
Our target for the weekend is a challenging 40 different species so the more taking part the better.
Listed below are some of the species we hope will be spotted
Absolute certs –
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Common Buzzard
Goldfinch
Great Tit
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Long-tailed Tit
Mallard
Pheasant
Robin
Woodpigeon
Wren
Look a bit harder –
Bullfinch
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Crow
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Herring Gull
Jay
Kestrel
Lesser Black-backed gull
Little Owl
Magpie
Mistle Thrush
Nuthatch
Raven
Redwing
Rook
Song Thrush
Tawny Owl
If we’re lucky-
Brambling
Kingfisher
Lesser Redpoll
Reed Bunting
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
There’s that 41 without even trying and I bet some of you know of others!
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