Showing posts with label Our Garden Birdwatch.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Garden Birdwatch.. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Counting the birds 2

We blogged about our bird survey last Saturday and actually carried out the 'formal survey' on Sunday morning ( 26th January). We've entered our results on the site 'Oiseaux des Jardins'. The site is jointly run by the LPO (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux) and the National Museum of Natural History.

Here are our pages.



During the survey we recorded a sighting of a Cirl Bunting (Bruant zizi) which is listed as rare and the site asks you to record each time it is seen. As one was in the garden again this morning, we recorded it. This time we were able to get a couple of photographs so these were also uploaded to the site.

We will be keeping up our observations and making regular entries. It is also interesting to be able to search the local area and see what has been recorded when and where.

It is an interesting site and we could spend many a happy hour looking through it... especially when it's raining!