Every year on the last weekend of January the RSPB hold a bird watch. It isn't necessary to be a member of the RSPB to participate, nor do you even have to leave your comfy chair indoors.
All you need to do is spend one hour during the specified two days watching the birds in your garden or local park and note the highest number of each species observed at any one time.
As a result of these observations the RSPB has been able to build up a picture of how well our common birds are doing and found among other things that the number of starlings, house sparrows and blackbirds continue to decline.
In 2004 400,000 people made a record of all the feathered friends that visited their backyard in the course of two days.
To fond out more about the RSPB and how to support them visit www.rspb.org.uk












