The RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by jaelen

(politely snipped to focus on the... ah, more intriguing visitors to Eeyore's garden.)

You missed the pair of gt northern divers - which werent really swiming in my pond

That said the rest of the species on the list were genuine and i was fairly happy to get both nutty and GSW - putting up a fat log is paying dividends

[SheffieldLass]

Given that you can do your count anywhere, I don't think it matters where the boundary is. They don't really go into rules, the only two I can see are1) that you count only the birds that are actually using the space that you are watching not merely flying over, and 2) the max number seen at any one time. But a kestel hovering or a sparrowhawk flying over on the chance of grabbing one of the birds on your feeder, well they can be counted even if they don't actually land. Also if you had a very early swallow catching insects on the wing over your garden or wherever it was that you were watching ...

Not that I've filled in the online form yet, maybe it tells you more there once you've counted, just what you should have been doing