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Post by rowanberry on Jan 5, 2019 21:46:26 GMT
Dates for this year are January 26-28; here is the link for ordering your free postal pack:
It does seem to have come around awfully quickly this year!
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Post by treehugger on Jan 19, 2019 10:43:36 GMT
Whats involved in this "registering"? I didnt bother last year, had a look and all they seemed interested in was all my details so they can bombard me with stuff I am not interested in. Used to do it, but it put me off last year. Sure it used to be simpler.
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Post by rowanberry on Jan 19, 2019 12:22:24 GMT
Alan, I just now did it, and it's so you have the option to either order a pack through the post or record your findings online on the day.
Personally, I prefer to have a form to fill in and send back to them, (past years the webside couldn't cope and kept crashing when everyone went to record their results all at the same time!) I'm just old-fashioned, I guess.
To me, it's more satisfying filling in all those boxes with a pen... ' ten sparrows, eighteen starlings, two robins, and one partridge in the pear tree...' 
I made that last one up. We haven't got a pear tree.
The RSPB are pretty good... I think if you don't want them to send you any bumpf, you can opt out of being on their mailing list.
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Post by rowanberry on Jan 28, 2019 19:20:54 GMT
I thought our bird-watch was going to be a bit of a wash-out this year, but in the end our count wasn't too bad.
Two jays, one robin, one coal-tit, a half dozen sparrows, four goldfinches, two starlings, one dunnock, and one woodpecker.
The sparrow count would probably have been higher, but the robin took exception to them and kept seeing them off. Every now and again he refuses to tolerate sparrows, but of course half an hour later they're all back again.  |
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Post by Tringa on Feb 3, 2019 14:46:36 GMT
Similar birds and count here. Top of the list were the five goldfinches but also sparrows, wood pigeons, feral pigeons, blue tits, great tits, blackbird and a few others.
Within a couple of days of the count we had two collard doves, two rose ringed/ring necked parakeets, a jay and best of all a goldcrest! Hmmm.
Dave
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