Is it only me that's got the weather from hell.!?!?...typical when a was soooooo looking forward to BGBW this weekend...been awake all night with the howling wind, checking my trees are still in the ground! Even the bird feeding pole was lying down the wind is so strong.
The poor flocks of finches are tyring their best to hang onto the apple trees while they try to work out what's going on with their feeders.
Well it's all scattered over the grass and that's probably the safest place they can feed from the now.....brave wee souls
Goodluck to you all this weekend and enjoy what you see ;-)
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
I’ve seen worse over the the decades since the Big Garden Birdwatch first started. The weather has varied from deep snow, heavy rain, fine dry sunny weather, storm force gales like today and in some years dense thick fog and very difficult to see any birds in my garden from my window. It is January, don’t forget. At one time in my youth in the 1960’s and the 1950’s as young child as I was born in 1952, although the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch which was still many many years before such an event was ever thought off within the RSPB, we regularly had deep snow for at at least a few weeks every winter and of course deep snow happened in January regularly. And for anyone like myself who remembers the 1962-1963 winter where half the UK’s bird population didn’t survive that winter, this winter is tropical. Deep snow is quite rare in the UK for obvious reasons now. Though occasionally like 2010-2011 winter you can get deep snow for a prolonged period. But not very often now as in my youth!.
Regards,
Ian.
Whole of Lanarkshire has yellow warning in place till Monday :-(
Cin J
We are glad Chris did a count yesterday, I was going to do one today in a little reserve a few hundred yards away but this strong wind makes it hard to breath so hoping to do one tomorrow with 12 year old grandson.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can