The Club holds a Garden Birdwatch every January and has done so since 1998. Over the years valuable information on the status of garden birds within the Blackburn area has been analysed. The Garden Birdwatch takes place over the last weekend in January, to coincide with the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch.

How to take part in our Garden Birdwatch?

Members and non members are welcome to take part. Here are the rules -

• Record the maximum number of a bird of a particular species seen in the garden at the same time over an hour. So if you see two Robins at the same time record two Robins. If you see one Robin at one time and then see one Robin at another time you should record one Robin as it could be the same bird.

• Only record birds using the garden, i.e do not record birds flying over (Sparrowhawk flying through the garden hunting is permitted).

• The garden must be within the Club's Recording area.

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Members will be contacted by a member of the Committee for results, non members are able to post results on our Facebook Group. Coming soon!

Results often show interesting differences between birds in the Blackburn area and those from the RSPB survey covering Lancashire, England and the UK as a whole. For instance our survey has consistently shown more Goldfinch than the wider Lancashire area.

Reports of results from the last three years can be downloaded below -

• 2024 Results

• 2023 Results

• 2022 Results

Robin by Jonathan Fry.

Male Brambling by Carol Brown.