Can you spare an hour this weekend to help find out how Denbighshire and UK birds are doing?
From this Friday (January 24) until Sunday (January 26), the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch will once again take place.
The annual campaign that has been running for over 40 years encourages people of all ages to put aside an hour in their own garden or local park to count how many of each bird species lands nearby.
Across UK skies over the last 60 years, around 38 million birds have been lost from our skies, with popular species such as house sparrows and starlings struggling.
Denbighshire residents who are keen to lend a helping hand to local bird populations and do not have a back garden, can visit one of the many parks and nature reserves that are available across the county near their homes.
Denbighshire County Council Senior Biodiversity Officer Liam Blazey said: “Around the county you may see birds including the Long-tailed tit (who move around together in small flocks), goldfinches, starlings (who can form very large flocks over winter, and sometimes perform aerial displays called murmurations), redwings (a relative of the blackbird, who breed in the north of Europe, and visit us over winter).
“If you are having a go to support this great campaign in your back garden you might also see blue tit, great tit, and robins who are common visitors to household gardens.”
Cllr Barry Mellor, Lead Member for Environment and Transport and Biodiversity Champion, said: “It is so vital to keep track of the state of our local bird populations to help us help the birds that have decreased in numbers. Giving time to this survey can really help protect the future of all county and UK bird populations.”
* To submit your findings to the survey, log on to https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch
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