It’s back – pull up a chair and take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch 2025

The Lincolnshire Coronation Coast National Nature Reserve (LCCNNR) is a special landscape covering an area equivalent to 4,000 football pitches, and containing a rich variety of sand dunes, salt marshes, mudflats and freshwater marshes which are of international importance.

It begins behind Cleethorpes Leisure Centre, and brings together North East Lincolnshire’s own local nature reserve, which is already recognised as a wildlife haven of international importance with SSSI/SPA/SAC status, with the existing Donna Nook and Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserves.

We protect and respect the birds and wildlife that frequent this beautiful landscape and enhance their environment to encourage even more fantastic species to come here.

This weekend, however, we are also celebrating some birds that we don’t give quite as much fanfare to – and that is those in our own back gardens!

From Friday January 24 to Sunday January 26 the RSPB’s Big Garden Watch will be taking place across the country. It is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey and, every year, hundreds of thousands of nature lovers like us take part, helping to build a picture of how garden birds are faring.

Across the UK, over 600,000 people took part in Big Garden Birdwatch 2024, counting a whopping 9.7 million birds!

House Sparrows took the top spot, but counts of these chirpy birds are down by 60% compared to the first Birdwatch in 1979. In fact, we’ve lost 38 million birds from UK skies in the last 60 years. With birds facing so many challenges, it’s more important than ever to get involved in the Birdwatch. Every bird you do – or don’t – count will give the RSPB a valuable insight into how garden birds are faring.

To take part in the Big Garden Watch, all you have to do is grab a cuppa and spend an hour at any time during the weekend noting down the different birds that come into your garden. Only record the ones that come into your patch and record the highest number of each bird species that you see at any one time. For more information and to take part go to Big Garden Birdwatch

The top five most-spotted garden birds in the 2024 survey were:
House Sparrow 1,442,300; Blue Tit 1,094,401; Starling 879,006; Woodpigeon 835,40 and Blackbird 708,004.