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This Saturday and Sunday are your chance to contribute to the official Big Garden Birdwatch - and a great opportunity to observe the birds in your garden, park, or other open space. It's also a great time to come down to Flatford Wildlife Garden and get involved. We had great fun last weekend...

Snowdrops emerge, brushing away the memory of Autumn This week's work-party gave me a chance to see the very first snowdrops emerging in the garden. Being an Antipodean who frequently struggles with the long dark winter here, I always feel a moment of disproportionate wild joy when the first...

Glasgow’s schoolchildren have been celebrating Scotland’s amazing wildlife with an art competition organised by RSPB Scotland. Drawings, painting and sculptures were created as part of the RSPB’s annual Big Schools’ Birdwatch (which this year runs from 16-30 January) and all...

Blogger - Gena Correale-Wardle, Community Fundraising Officer Here in the RSPB office we love our food. Cake is a regular fixture during the week and lunchtimes come with a melee of delicious smells emanating from the kitchen as people reheat their leftover dinners. There are a lot of fine bakers...

Blogger: Aggie Rothon, Communications Officer Apparently we as a nation put on, on average, five pounds over Christmas. That’s quite impressive, even taking in to account the super size me tins of Quality Street sold everywhere pre-Christmas. The BBC seems to have taken this bit of information...

From Jacob Hunter (Garden Intern) I thought that the rest provided by the festive period might have proved a good moment for our indefatigable volunteers to write something in reflection on a great year's work. Alas... most of them were too busy enjoying themselves. And so, although I have only...

Last week RSPB Scotland hosted “Christmas Tweats”, a well-attended CPD (continuous professional development) event at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The event focused on how teachers and their classes can get school grounds wildlife-friendly ready for Christmas. Teachers enjoyed...

Without the leaves on the trees, the river is visible from the garden. This week has been national tree week : the annual celebration of trees and a marker of the beginning of the tree planting season. I will admit that although I know the trees at Flatford are integral to the garden's wildlife...

If you are at a loose end on friday evening, put on the telly and switch to ITV1 at 8pm. It's Ray Mears' Wild Britain and this week he is in the Broads. Ray and the film crew spent a couple of days filming at Strumpshaw Fen in late June, and caught up with some fantastic wildlife, and they didn't...

It'd be really interesting to see what everybody does with the children in their care, whether you're a parent, teacher, home educator, club leader, relative (I could go on!). Please post if you've got a great memory or would like to share something that your children really enjoy doing...

Yawn, we're awake now! The Art Club forum has now been added to Chat so please feel free to share your own nature-inspired artwork in the new forum linked here .

I thought i'd kick this thread off by seeing if anybody is planning on doing something for nature with their school grounds this year? Whether it's a new pond, a bird feeding table or a themed area devoted to wildlife, it'd be great to hear about it.

We're midway through the Make Your Nature Count week, hoping it's all going well for everyone! We would really love to hear how your surveys have gone and what your stars of the survey have been! If you have not taken part just yet, you can find all you need to get involved here .

I'm currently very interested in Wildlife Friendly farming and have been wondering if the RSPB works with, or tries to work with, farmers around Dearne Valley? If the local farms are or could be managed in a Wildlife friendly way then the farmland species that live at these reserves (such as Lapwings...

This picture was taken not so long ago, and unfortunatly I missed the robin's face and it turned around!

Taken at the Fen Hide on Monday, it was wiith a pied wagtail and never seemed bothered by me snapping away at them.

Taken at the River Ugie Peterhead.

Hi there This is one thing I want to clear up in my mind for once and for all - and I am sure that others feel the same way. Question: Birds and their named areas of their body parts I only state body parts in a simplistic way. I need to be better informed about Primary feathers, names of parts...

Dramatic June evening sky!

This is the Robin that's nested in the Ivy on our Garden Fence and in full view! and it is Amazing to watch them coming and going feeding their babies,and being such good parents!! We feel very privileged to have them here,

Kung Fu Sparrows.Two sparrows in the next doors garden fighting over peanut feeder. Great to watch all these litte birds in your garden as lets all the worries slip away for a while. Amazing site to watch if you take the time.

My Wife and I were walking along our local canal tow path when we noticed an adult Robin perched on the branch of a tree less than 4 feet away. That beautiful little bird enthralled us for a good twenty minutes with it's lovely song and it's company.

A gorgeous red breasted robin in full song. It was a glorious way to start our nature ramble.

Red kites everywhere! As these fork-tailed master flyers soared above my head I was completely lost in their world. It made me remember the power that nature has, and how it makes everything else seem insiginificant. Breath taking!

Deep in Mid-Wales I remembered how simple a pleasure just being in nature is. It was the look on my son's face that summed it up.