Birdwatching Weekend

Birdwatching Weekend

Grandad gave the kids some information on the Big Garden Birdwatch weekend going on over the 30th – 31st January 2010 organised by the RSPB.

They are both very keen at bird watching and T had a birdwatching book and pair of binoculars for Christmas whilst L had a gift voucher for falconry courses which she can use later in the year.

Where we are is absolutely perfect for birdwatching, we live up a little track surrounded by fields and with a good old fashioned hedge 20 ft from our front door with open fields the other side of it.

I have 3 or 4 bird feeding stations set up in this hedge and we can just sit in the warmth of our dining room or living room watching countless birds of all varieties.

We get all varieties of tits and finches, loads of blackbirds, starings, sparrows and robins. We have pheasants, pigeons and have a very loud cuckoo which always arrives very early and is very close by (although we haven’t seen him yet). We also get both varieties of woodpecker, and have even had a young one tapping on our living room window when we were in there.

We have barn owls 2 fields away which we can go and watch when we like and a highlight for my daughter a couple of weeks ago was a buzzard hovering within 10ft of the car as we drove to school in the morning.

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