Flaxton Environment Group – Birdwatch 2026 – 23rd-25th January 2026

Big Garden Birdwatch

Big Garden Birdwatch is is the largest garden wildlife survey in the world and is run each year in January by the RSPB.  This year it is taking place on the coming weekend: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 23-25 January.  In 2024 and 2025 a number of people who recorded birds in Flaxton sent their results to the Environment Group and we produced reports which are available on the Parish Council website (here: Big-Garden-Birdwatch-Report-Flaxton-2024 and Big-Garden-Birdwatch-Report-Flaxton-2025).

We are planning to do this again this year so if you are planning to take part we would be very grateful if you would let us see your results as well as posting them online to the RSPB. Please include details of where you live, what species you’ve seen and the maximum number of each species seen at any one time, and send by email to . We will put together the results we receive into a short report for Flaxton, which will summarise what was seen but will retain anonymity for those who contributed – we won’t mention any names or addresses of those who took part.  This will be available on the Parish Council website .  Full details on how to take part can be found at Big Garden Birdwatch

Little brown jobs (“LBJ’s”)

LBJ is a birding term for those little brown birds that all look similar and are hard to tell apart! Last year some people recorded ‘sparrows’, but there are actually two species of sparrow in Flaxton, house sparrows and tree sparrows, and it would be really helpful if you can say which you saw – you might even see both!  If you aren’t sure of the difference between them, the guide below may help.