… is the RSPB’s 2016 Big Garden Birdwatch. For the past couple of years I have been entering my count in the hope of helping gauge the health of the UK’s wild bird population.
![rspb-birdwatch-event[1]](https://redpanda08.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/rspb-birdwatch-event1.jpg?w=428&h=207)
Once again this year, I will be looking out to my back garden for just one hour and make a tally of the feathered visitors who frequent my bird feeders.
If only the count was last weekend, as I had two very unusual visitors. Among the numerous Goldfinches, Starlings and Pigeons there was a female Blackbird eating invertebrates from the ivy and between the boughs of the Jasmine a Chiffchaff bobbed! The sighting took me by surprise but I was without camera so a video taken of a previous sighting will have to do!
Female Blackbird by David Evans
Chiffchaff by Rayh from: http://www.birdforum.net
Will you be joining in with the count?
Christine x
Christine Lucas 
Ohhh i didn’t realise it was this weekend.You have so many lovely visitors to your garden, i am quite envious! I will try and join in though i have a feeling i won’t get anything…but the neighbors cat! X
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I hadn’t thought about it, but now you’ve brought it to my attention…. 🙂
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It’s a nice way to spend an hour 🙂
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The other half will probably do it. He’s more patient than me and has better eyesight (and bird knowledge 🙂 )
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