Big Garden Birdwatch

Last weekend I participated for the first time in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. This is an annual large-scale survey of garden birds. The idea is that you pick a spare hour to count the birds that appear in your garden.

We only have a small garden, and I had to do this from the living room window while also looking after my five month old son, so I didn't see all that many species. In fact, for the first 25 minutes I saw no birds at all!

It picked up a bit after a male chaffinch arrived, however. So for what it's worth, here are my results:

• 1 woodpigeon
• 1 blackbird
• 3 chaffinches
• 5 house sparrows
• 1 dunnock