Big Garden Birdwatch 2006

This year we took part in the Big Garden Birdwatch 2006 organised by the RSPB during the weekend of 28/29 January 2006.

This event is the world's largest bird survey. It involves thousands of people spending one hour watching the birds in their own gardens or local parks during one particular weekend. It is necessary to make a note of the birds seen during this period and and inform the RSPB about the highest number of each species seen at any one time during the hour (to avoid counting the same birds twice.)

Click here to see the results for 2006.

Our Results

This year we took part on Sunday 29th January, 9.25 to 10.25 am. It was a beautifully sunny, but cold day. We saw 13 different species during that hour. Here are our results:

	Birds	Number seen at any one time
	Blackbird	1
	Blue tit	2
	Buzzard	1
	Carrion crow	1
	Chaffinch	1
	Coal tit	2
	Great tit	3
	Greenfinch	1
	Green woodpecker	1
	Magpie	2
	Pheasant	2
	Robin	1
	Wood pigeon	12

About an hour after the Birdwatch was finished, the nuthatch and some long-tailed tits appeared - too late to be included in the survey.

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