NZ Garden Bird Survey

This week Jake encouraged the kids to get involved in the NZ Garden Bird Survey, so yesterday they put some bread out in the garden and then got ready to spend an hour sitting in front of the window with their Landcare Research forms, ticking off how many of each species they could see.

Usually our garden is jam packed with tuis, fantails, sparrows, blackbirds and Kererus; however today they must have all known the survey was going on because not a single bird came into the garden in the whole hour, apart from one lone wood pigeon (perhaps he was scaring the others off?).

The kids got totally bored within 15 minutes of no action, so they went off to play and I had to sit by the window for the remaining 45 mins. Thanks kids/Jake!

PS Two hours after our survey ended about 30 birds came back into the garden.