Calling all #BigGardenBirdwatch -ers! Let's get to know each other...
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🗓️ Years participating:
📍 Watching from:
🦉Fave bird:
💙What I love about the BGBW:
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🗓️ Years participating:
📍 Watching from:
🦉Fave bird:
💙What I love about the BGBW:
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😀 Kitchen Window
🦜Robin
💜trying to count the sparrows hiding in our hedge
# BigGardenBirdWatch
📍 Watching from: Northants
🦉Fave bird: Kingfisher
💙What I love about the BGBW: I have volunteered for wildlife charities for many years and now work in conservation. I adore nature and taking an hour out to count birds is brilliant.
🗓️ Years participating: 10?
📍 Watching from: Derbyshire
🦉Fave bird: Barn owl
💙What I love about the BGBW: I used to do this with my children. Now they're teensgers, I enjoy just sitting peacefully on my own for an hour!
📍 Watching from: the back fields on the farm
🦉Fave bird: Corvids. Raptors. Everything
💙What I love about the BGBW: It connects us just slightly to the web of life, reminds us we're never separate.
📍 Watching from: Staffordshire
🦉Fave bird: Starling
💙What I love about the BGBW: its citizen science for any age, and it’s an hour to just breathe, which is rare in life
📍 Watching from: Leicester
🦉Fave bird: Crow or Magpie
💙 What I love about the BGBW: A chance to sit and see what’s visiting our garden
🗓️ Years participating: probably 10plus
📍 Watching from: Suffolk
🦉Fave bird: Lapwings but Long Tail Tits are my fave to see on the feeders
💙What I love about the BGBW: Sitting with a cup of tea and watching the interaction between the birds visiting the feeders.
📍 Watching from: Garden/ or conservatory depending on temperature 🥶
🦉Fave bird: Pigeon 🐦
💙What I love about the BGBW: A great excuse to do one of my fave things!!! 😁
🗓️ Years participating: 9
📍 Watching from: our living room
🦉Fave bird: I love them all! I’m just delighted to see birds in our little south London garden! 🥰
💙What I love about the BGBW: A nice relaxing way to spend a Sunday morning with a cuppa.
📍 Watching from: Glasgow
🦉Fave bird: Long tailed tit
💙What I love about the BGBW: Chance to use my binoculars, relax and just enjoy the birds 🐦
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🗓️ Years participating: 10+
📍 Watching from: My garden
🦉Fave bird: Kingfisher
💙What I love about the BGBW: Allow time to sit down with a cuppa & just watch wildlife. 😀
📍 Watching from: home into garden
🦉Fave bird: robin, blackbird and oystercatcher
💙What I love about the BGBW A nice way to spend a quiet hour.
📍 Watching from: My garden, viewed from the kitchen. ☕️ 🍪
🦉Fave bird: Crow, and all the Corvids.
💙What I love about the BGBW: Everyone can take part. It’s guilt free birdwatching time because it’s for science! 😄
📍 Watching from: Various windows of my house.
🦉Fave bird: Aaagh, brain overload, can't choose.
💙What I love about the BGBW:Makes me sit down and watch carefully for an hour and enjoy them.
January 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Everybody can reply
📍 Watching from: The garden in West Lothian and Easter Breich Community Woods
🦉Fave bird: Treecreeper 💚
💙What I love about the BGBW: Paying attention to nature from the house and seeing just how many species are all around us 😀
📍 Watching from: Oxfordshire
🦉Fave bird: Kookaburra
💙What I love about the BGBW: Being forced to sit for an hour looking out the window! (My husband said looking at tits…)
📍 Watching from:Yorkshire
🦉Fave bird: Wren
💙What I love about the BGBW: Great excuse to rest & watch the birds, snuggled up with a cuppa.
📍 Watching from: my back garden in theWest Midlands
🦉Fave bird: dunnock
💙What I love about the BGBW a happy (hopefully) useful hour spent observing nature. My husband joins in, too, so it’s a collaboration.
📍 Watching from: my conservatory
🦉Fave bird: I don’t have one. They are all brilliant!
💙What I love about the BGBW: it’s a spark of light in the January darkness, a chance brew a pot of tea and it helps us to know what’s happening with our beloved birds
📍 Watching from: My garden
🦉 Fave bird: Nuthatch ❤️
💙 What I love about the BGBW: A peaceful hour spent with a cuppa watching nature.
Can’t wait!
📍 Watching from: My garden - which backs on to countryside
🦉 Fave bird: Yellowhammer
💙 What I love about the BGBW: Contributing to nationwide research
#BGBW
📍 Watching from: Belfast
🦉Fave bird: Tern
💙What I love about the BGBW: Chance to connect with the kids
📍 Watching from: window of third floor flat over city park
🦉Fave bird: Magpie
💙What I love about the BGBW: I can help monitor the environmental catastrophe in Britain
🗓️ Years participating: 5
📍 Watching from: the back garden
🦉Fave bird: long tailed tit
💙What I love about the BGBW: linking something I enjoy to the bigger picture and hopefully helping nature and conservation in the process.
📍 Home
🦉Sparrows (not just boring brown birds)
💙An excuse to have a cuppa and watch birds
📍 Watching from: Sheffield
🦉Fave bird: Bittern
💙What I love about the BGBW: Realising how lucky we are to have so many birds visiting each day
📍 Watching from: Banbury
🦉Fave bird: Red Kite (controversial possibly? 😅)
💙What I love about the BGBW: The excitement of our little one spotting another bird and marking it off!
📍 Watching from: North London
🦉 Fave bird: Wren
💙 What I love about the BGBW: hanging out with some 🐦🐤🦉🕊️🐧s
📍 Watching from: a kitchen window in St Helens
🦉Fave bird: toughie… the swift (although it’s the jackdaws during the BGBW)
💙What I love about the BGBW: the absolute shenanigans 🫨☺️
📍 Watching from: My kitchen window.
🦉Fave bird: Garden bird, Blue Tit. Other, got to be a Tuftie
💙What I love about the BGBW: Watching my garden come alive with birds.
📍 Watching from: my conservatory
🦉Fave bird: goldfinch
💙What I love about the BGBW:A good excuse to sit quietly and watch the birds without interruption.
📍 Watching from: Essex
🦉Fave bird: Egret! (Underrated)
💙What I love about the BGBW: The excuse to sit and watch the birds for a while. Plus the ridiculous starling count 😅 why does it keep getting higher!?