Free Entertainment - bird watching - how RSPB collate and compute your annual bird watch results

Problem
You watch the birds all year. You'd like to know how this year compares to last and whether your results are typical.

Answer
RSPB does a nationa wife bird watch every year. They email or post a guide to the birds and if you get the email you can print off the bird identifier and note the results - even if you can't do it on the day, just for your own records.

I misssed the day this year because I was away. I thought of doing it the next day and sending in the results late. But I didn't. Then I got an email a week or two later saying that if you hadn't sent in your results there was still time. So next year if I can't do it on the right day, I might consider doing it the next day, either for myelf or them.

Now they have issued an account of what they do with your results.

Bird watching
https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/behind-the-scenes#utm_source=March&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=notesonnature

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.