Make Your Nature Count 2012

MAKE YOUR NATURE COUNT STARTS THIS WEEKEND!

RSPB's summer wildlife survey is nearly here and they'd love you to be part of it! To get the best possible overview of how summer wildlife is faring around the UK, RSPB need lots of eyes watching gardens over the coming week. Simply count the birds you see in your garden (or local park) for one hour between 2-10 June, and tell them what you see.

They'd also like you to give them some information on the other wildlife that visits your garden. You don't have to see these species in the hour you spend counting birds, but let them know if you ever see them in your garden and if so, roughly how often.

HOW TO TAKE PART

You can find out all you need to know about doing Make Your Nature Count on this website.

GIVE RSPB YOUR RESULTS!

Whether you've been inundated with birds or only seen a few, it's all useful information, so please send RSPB your results - it's easier than ever to tell them what you've seen.

Click here to submit your results

SPECIAL INTEREST - SLOW WORMS 

Slow worms – a type of legless, slug-eating lizard – are the unlikely stars of the RSPB’s Make Your Nature Count survey this year.

People are asked to keep a look out for slow worms in their garden or local park as part of the RSPB’s annual summer wildlife survey, as well as a variety of other wildlife, including hedgehogs, garden birds and their chicks.  

Slow worms feature in the survey for the first time this year.  They are most at home in the compost heap, where they keep warm and find food like slugs, snails and spiders.  Or they might be found hiding between rocks and other garden debris, meaning spotting them is not always easy.  However, the RSPB wants this year’s survey to provide a baseline count of slow worms in Britain’s gardens, which they can measure against in future years. 

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/Make-Your-Nature-Count.html