{"id":1439,"date":"2012-01-24T17:14:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2012-01-24T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:14:53","slug":"big-garden-birdwatch-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/big-garden-birdwatch-2012","title":{"rendered":"Big Garden Birdwatch 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birdwatch\/takepart.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch<\/a> this weekend, e-mail us <a href=\"mailto:enquiries@newtltd.co.uk\">enquiries@newtltd.co.uk<\/a> a list of what you saw and we&#8217;ll give a prize to whoever sends us the biggest list.<\/p>\n<p>As a business, and as individuals, we submit our wildlife sightings to various organisations and get involved in several surveys; every month we send in our bird records to our local bird club, we take part in the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) and walk from Cresswell to East Chevington once a month counting <em><strong>grebes<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>cormorants<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>shags<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>herons<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>wading birds<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>wildfowl<\/strong><\/em>, we survey East Chevington each winter as part of the Icelandic-breeding Goose census and, of course, there&#8217;s the Northeast Cetacean Project database which we manage.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Garden Birdwatch is one of our favourites though.\u00a0 We take a fairly laid-back approach to it (actually that&#8217;s not entirely true &#8211; there&#8217;s a certain element of competition to see who can add the trickier species to the list); bacon sandwiches, mugs of coffee and an hour\u00a0birdwatching in our southeast Northumberland garden.<\/p>\n<p>Why not get involved?\u00a0 The instructions for the survey are simple, you only need 1 hour to complete the birdwatching bit of the survey (and the data entry is very straightforward) and it&#8217;s got to be one of the easiest ways to get involved in surveying and\u00a0make a contribution to a project that has been running for 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, e-mail us enquiries@newtltd.co.uk a list of what you saw and we&#8217;ll give a prize to whoever sends us the biggest list. As a business, and as individuals, we submit our wildlife sightings to various organisations and get involved in several surveys; every month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","tag-big-garden-birdwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}