{"id":193,"date":"2022-01-28T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home-ed-in-a-shed.blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2022-01-28T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T21:14:13","slug":"big-garden-birdwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home-ed-in-a-shed.blog\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Big Garden Birdwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey Blog! As today is the first day of the RSPB\u2019s Big Garden Birdwatch weekend, I thought I\u2019d take part, and share the results from this with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Big Garden Birdwatch is the biggest citizen science survey about nature, with one million participants last year, and is quick, fun, and easy to do. You don\u2019t even need to have a garden, just an hour to do it in, a green space to go to, some paper, an ID sheet (or know the birds already) and your eyes. Upload the results to the RSPB at <a href=\"https:\/\/rspb.org.uk\/get-involved\/activities\/birdwatch\/\">https:\/\/rspb.org.uk\/get-involved\/activities\/birdwatch\/<\/a>, and also find games, a quiz, bird lists, and many more bird-related activities. Started in 1979 by the RSPB, my Mum has taken part in many Big Garden Birdwatches, including the first one. Oops, perhaps I shouldn\u2019t have said that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are the birds I saw while doing the hour of watching, and the totals of their numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Blackbird<\/td><td>X 2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Blue tit<\/td><td>X 1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Coal tit<\/td><td>X 2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dunnock<\/td><td>X 1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Robin<\/td><td>X 2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Long-tailed tit<\/td><td>X 9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wren<\/td><td>X 1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption>Bird Tallies 28\/01\/22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long tailed tits were more in number than all the other birds put together, as they often come in small flocks to our feeder. We watched out of the dining room window, with a pot of tea, and binoculars. We didn\u2019t actually need the binoculars to see the birds, as we have a feeder only a couple of meters away from the window, but it was good to have them, just in case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Birds are not the only animals we have seen in the garden. The low wall just outside the window, full of holes, is now known as the \u201cmammal wall\u201d, due to the three mice, a bank vole (nicknamed <em>Bank<\/em>sy) and a shrew, (Britain\u2019s smallest carnivore, protected by law) which we think is a Common Shrew, all coming out of the same hole. A grey squirrel comes occasionally, and ate some of the seeds off the head of the old sunflower from the summer. We get toads in summer, and frogs like to hide in the long grass. Our hope is for something really exiting, like a slow worm, or a woodpecker, to come and make our garden its home. 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