Clwyd West MS Darren Millar is encouraging people in Conwy and Denbighshire to join the hundreds of thousands of people across the UK who will celebrate their love of nature and unite to watch and count the nation’s garden birds over the last weekend in January for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch.

This year RSPB Cymru’s annual Big Garden Bird Watch will be taking place in gardens right across the UK on the weekend of 27-29th January.

Darren said:

“Every year on the last weekend in January the RSPB encourages the public to take part in a nationwide count of our garden birds.

“The Big Garden Bird Watch is the largest garden wildlife survey in the world and last year just short of 700,000 people took part counting 11 million birds.

“The much-loved annual event is in its 44th year. Over that time 172 million birds have been counted.

“By taking part in the Birdwatch, you are helping to build an annual snapshot of how our birdlife is doing across the UK. It is only by us understanding how our wildlife is faring that we can protect it.

“I therefore encourage people to take part in this wonderful, worthwhile project.”

Taking part is as easy as 1,2,3:

1. Watch the birds around you for one hour

2. Count how many of each species of bird lands on your patch

3. Go online and tell RSPB what you saw: Taking Part in Big Garden Birdwatch - RSPB