GARDEN BIRDS

Have you got a garden? Has your house got a balcony? Have you got a place to put out a feeder for the birds? Why don`t you take part in the bird survey organized by the Urdabai Bird Centre?

BBT wants to encourage people to take part, on the one hand because it`s a way of helping the birds in winter and on the other hand to bring the birds closer so that they can be more easily identified and in this way we can help the Bird Centre to know what birds are in the area.

It`s very easy to do. All you have to do is to get in contact with  Urdaibai Bird Centre in order to get information on how to go about it. But whether you take part in this programme or not, we have both feeders and food on sale in our centre at a reasonable price (1 kilo of peanuts 3 euros, 1 kilo of seeds 2 euros and the peanut feeder itself 8 euro. We propose that you make your own seed feeder as it`s very easy to do.

Once a week you should put aside 15m to an hour to watch and write down all the species you see. You should only write down the highest number you see at any one time so if one day you see two blue tits and the next day you see three then you should write down three. But, don`t worry as you have all the information on the Bird Centre web-page and we`re also there to help you!