The Big Garden Bird watch 2012

Good Day Everybody.

Over this weekend this years Big Garden Bird Watch has been taking place run through the RSPB website. Has anybody else taken part in it?? Basically you sit in your garden or view from back window and log down all the birds you see in an hour and how many.

Mostly usual suspects to our garden today, one new visitor though Only posting 2 images from today. Enjoy

My 1st Dunnock



And this poor fella. He had an abnormal beak, cannot see the full length of it in this image, was about 4 inches



Thanks for looking

Nice pics Mark. Really like the mournful starling.

Always do the garden watch here.

Thanks Sharon.
Yes poor little thing, always feel sorry for them when see things like this, especially as he probably struggles to eat as well as the others

I haven't be able to. I've been on tasmanian devil/s watch (Marcus and Joshua, yesterday Leah) and for some reason I've also become a taxi driver

Like the starling looking sorry for itself

Ahhh poor thing, well spotted and the Dunnock, they are not always that easy to see

I usually take part in the Big Garden Bird Watch, i received an email and i was intending on doing it, but with one thing and another it got missed,

Thanks Dave & Kay

It could of been something you could of taken part in with the kids Dave ....Haha on the Taxi driving Is that not what being a parent/Grandparent is all about

Kay - It is a shame the RSPB only do this once a year, i thought they might of done one for each season of the year because surely sightings change with the seasons. You can however take part in the British trust for Ornithology surveys all year around, they do a garden bird count amongst other surveys on our garden visitors

www.bto.org

nice one Mark

Cheers Cakey

I haven't ever heard of the garden watch. Sounds fun. My garden watch would consist of squirrels, blue jays, sparrows, squirrels, cardinals and oh yea....squirrels. Counted 14 squirrels at my feeder at one time. I like your shots. But, I haven't seen a starling with this long beak problem. Is this a birth defect? Working with Wildlife Rehab center I have seen many birth defects but none such as this.

Its something ive seen several times in different species, as you say a defect. Many of the birds seem to adapt well and manage to find enough food to survive.