Friday, March 28, 2008

RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

In this annual event over the weekend of 26 and 27 January 2008, almost 400,000 people counted more than six million birds across 228,000 gardens.

I don't know how many gardens were recorded in Pembrokeshire, but the top ten species are listed below, with the average number of each per garden.

Starling 7.80
Chaffinch 5.49
House sparrow 5.18
Blue tit 3.90
Blackbird 2.31
Great tit 2.03
Greenfinch 1.85
Robin 1.60
Collared dove 1.55
Jackdaw 1.54

More information at http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/results/