Winter Garden Bird Feeding Surveys

Regular

Coordinated by Barry Nightingale

Redwing – Richard North

We welcome your participation in this survey that allows us to track the changing fortunes of species feeding or foraging in our gardens.

This long running survey is again being co-ordinated by Barry Nightingale.

2025/6 Winter Garden Bird Feeding Survey (current)

September 2025 – February 2026

The current Winter Garden Bird Feeding Survey starts on 29th September 2025 and finishes at the end of February 2026.

The recording forms are here in PDF and Excel format.

recording form pdf

recording form EXcel

2024/5 Winter Garden Bird Feeding Survey

The Winter Garden Bird Feeding Survey started on 29th September 2024 and finished at the end of February 2025.

2023/4 Winter Garden Bird Feeding Survey

Results in The Hobby 185 (July 2025)

For the survey covering the 22-week period from the beginning of October 2023 to the end of February 2024, we received returns from 69 gardens, an increase of three from the previous winter.

The average number of species recorded in the rural gardens was 24.7, the lowest since winter 2013/14, and in urban gardens was 19.5, which is about average.

The total number of species in the surveyed gardens last winter was 75, equalling the record set in the
previous winter, and which included our first Yellow-legged Gull in this survey.

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