Big Garden Birdwatch

My Mum and I did the big garden birdwatch the last weekend of January. We had a very cold winter in the Highlands, with temperatures in our garden somtimes at -15 so we had a lot of garden birds looking for food.

There were parts of the highlands that were as cold as the North pole.

You had to record the highest amount of any type of bird at any time during the hour that you recorded. We chose 11am.

Our results were

Chaffinch 78
Greenfinch 7
Goldfinch 4
Coal Tit 6
Great Tit 7
Blue Tit 5
Robin 7
Dunnock 5
Blackbird 17
Siskin 5
Reed Bunting 3
Song Thrush 1
Pigeon 3
Treecreeper 2


We had lots of baby blackbirds last spring, that is why we had 17 at the same time.

We normally have lots of chaffinches in the garden. We had over 100 on that weekend. But sadly it was not in the hour that we had chosen.

I have included some of the photos that we have taken of the birds in our garden. We love the hair on the Coal Tit, he looks like a punk. The 2 chaffinches were dancing in the air. Both Treecreepers were looking for our home made fat balls. The blue tit looked so cute on our seed feeder and the Robin landed on a branch outside our living room. Hope you like them.