Yesterday afternoon, Isabella and I participated in the RSPB Garden Bird watch experiment which involved watching birds for an entire hour and recording the largest number of birds that you saw at any one time, for example four Starlings etc. Although you could do the bird watch anywhere, we chose our garden simply because it was freezing cold outside and we could watch the birds from the upstairs bedroom window! We are members of the RSPB and Isabella is a member of the Wildlife Explorers, so she is pretty good at identifying birds. We feed them daily and have various feeding stations for them, and because we live in very close proximity to a park, we tend to get lots of different birds. Our favourites are our two resident Robins - they are so cute! We also have two residen Blackbirds (male and female) and lots of wood pigeons, which are kind of annoying actually because they tend to eat everything. Anyway, we duly submitted our findings and rewarded our efforts with some yummy orange cake. I think for Isabella's birthday this year I'm going to get her a really nice pair of binoculars and take her to Rainham Marshes for the day - they have all sorts of interesting things to do down there and a club for kids to get involved with.
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