{"id":1249,"date":"2021-01-22T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:12:45","slug":"public-poised-for-big-garden-birdwatch-next-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/2021\/01\/22\/public-poised-for-big-garden-birdwatch-next-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Public poised for Big Garden Birdwatch next weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Half a million people are expected to take to their gardens next weekend for the worlds biggest garden wildlife survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RSPB a conservation charity is asking people to look out for everything from blackbirds to great tits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s time to fill-up your bird feeders and dust off your binoculars for this year\u2019s Big Garden Birdwatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RSPB are asking people to spend just one hour recording how many birds you can spot in your garden, even from a window or balcony, and then let them know what you\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it doesn\u2019t always go according to plan as Catherine Green has found out over the past six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: “Usually the birds seem to have this thing where they know it’s the Garden Birdwatch. Some of them don’t turn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You have to sit for one hour. You start counting and there’s very few [birds] and then when the hours over, they all come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They do it every year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n