Update: Competition now closed - the lucky winner was cumbrian_goodlife via instagram. Thanks to everybody for their entries, it made for really quite emotional reading.
The Big Garden Birdwatch is back this month and it couldn't have come at a better time. Not that we need a reason to spend an hour enjoying the wildlife on our doorstep, but!
In celebration of the Birdwatch we're giving you the chance to win a beautiful Green&Blue Birdball seed feeder for you, and one for a friend, yay!
There are three ways to enter.
1. Look for our Birdwatch competition post on our instagram page. Follow the instructions there.
2. Look for the competition post on our facebook and follow the instructions there.
3. Leave a comment on this blog post and tell us who you'd love to go birdwatching with right now.
Enter via all 3 and increase your chances!
The Big Garden Birdwatch competition closes on Sunday 24th January at midnight and we'll choose a winner on Monday - we're hoping to get your feeder to you and your friend before the Birdwatch begins!
Our decision is final, no cash alternative, competition is not endorsed by instagram or facebook.
The Big Garden Birdwatch takes place from the 29th to the 31st January and you can choose any hour within these dates to complete your count. All you have to do is then count the birds within your garden during this time and afterwards submit your results to the RSPB.
The Birdwatch is one of the largest citizen science projects in existence and gives vital data to help understand the challenges faced by our wildlife species. It's also a brilliant reason to spend some time in your garden or balcony (restrictions this year mean that you have to stay pretty close to home), to enjoy the wildlife on your doorstep and to maybe even be inspired to think of ways to encourage even more species for next year!
Sign up for more information or find more details of how to get involved from the RSPB right here.
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I’d go birdwatching with my friend, she supplies the binoculars and I supply the cake. Its been a while since we’ve been able to go out due to our hectic lives as keyworkers
I’d love to go birdwatching with my best friend and her little son who loves nature.
I would like to spend time with an expert orthinologist who could help identify the birds. I love the way on spring or winter watch, the presenters and guests cock their heads, listen and state ‘oh yes thats…..’
I would love to go birdwatching with my son like we did when he was young. We would sit on the kitchen work top with a sandwich made to look like a tractor with carrots for wheels and cucumber as the field and watch all the birds come for lunch as well. He knew the names of birds before most things . He is 17 now and he still enjoys a good bird watch
I would watch the birds with my two sons. Spotting robins and blue tits. But mostly a fat pigeon 🐦