RSPB Bird Watch

This weekend was the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and inspired by Nic’s annual report I decided to participate myself this year. In an hour our garden welcomed the following:

Blackbirds: 2
Blue Tits: 2
Chaffinch: 2
Collared Dove: 2
Great Tit: 2
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1
Long-tailed Tit: 2
Robin: 3
Starling: 1
Woodpigeon: 2

Clearly the instinct to be part of a pair is strong in north Hampshire birds, except for the Starling and one of the Robins, who I suspect might be having an affair.

I was pleased that the woodpecker decided to visit during the “Birdwatch” hour as he’s often around and I wanted to make sure he was included in the results. He duly obliged. The picture above is one that I snapped of him last year with the camera on a very long USB cable connected to a laptop in the kitchen. He was a bit punkier then with his spiky hair but he’s much more sober looking now.

There were almost 42,000 results posted when I went to register mine and I imagine there will be a lot more in a couple of days’ time. You can view the results online.

Posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am. Filed under: Entertainment RSS 2.0 feed.

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