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.
145 comments
I would love to go birdwatching with my parents, and see if there are any birds moving into the beautiful Green and Blue birdball I gave my Mum for her birthday last year. As she has breathing problems, I checked with Dad where the birdball could be hung where she would easily be able to see it. Dad suggested it were fixed onto a wall visible from the kitchen window, and so I bought a bracket for the birdball, and Dad fitted it. I have not been able to see either my parents, who are both elderly, and one of whom is shielding, or the installed birdball since… but would love to be able to see them, and bird watch with them, to see whether the birdball will be used this coming spring…
Lovely bird feeders I know my friend Kelly needs a new one.
I would love to take my boys birdwatching on the marshes around Cornwall once lockdown is over.. We have spied quite a few in our garden which they love to see.. But always looking for more
I would love this so my children could watch the birds in the garden! It would definitely make lockdown and homeschooling much more interesting!
My sister!