Patchwork Challenge June 2016 Birdguides

Patchwork Challenge June 2016 Birdguides This has been perhaps the most successful june ever in pwc terms, as a host of good birds graced patches the length and breadth of britain and ireland. the headline find this month was alex jones' broad billed sandpiper at rhyl. We would also like to mention two great supporters and stalwarts of patchwork challenge who sadly left us this year: martin garner and pete antrobus. both were very well known and popular in birding circles and contributed a great deal to the challenge.

Patchwork Challenge June 2016 Birdguides But what is patchwork challenge and why do we need your details? patchwork challenge (pwc) has been running since 2013 and is a friendly, community orientated competition to help link patch birders and encourage birding your local area whilst providing support and context for this. Friday, 3 june 2016 au revoir mes amis que sera, sera whatever will be will be, we're going to gay paree,. Patchwork challenge is a birding competition with the aim of getting people to record birds on their ‘patch’. a patch can be no more than 3km2 – mine incorporates a small part of hunmanby (my garden and the water treatment works), the road down to hunmanby gap and the gap itself. Patchwork challenge was set up encourage birders to look for birds rather than look at pagers. each participant has a ‘patch’ of no more than 3sqk which they go bird on as often as they can. the emphasis is on recording and finding your own local birds and understanding your site better.

Patchwork Challenge June 2016 Birdguides Patchwork challenge is a birding competition with the aim of getting people to record birds on their ‘patch’. a patch can be no more than 3km2 – mine incorporates a small part of hunmanby (my garden and the water treatment works), the road down to hunmanby gap and the gap itself. Patchwork challenge was set up encourage birders to look for birds rather than look at pagers. each participant has a ‘patch’ of no more than 3sqk which they go bird on as often as they can. the emphasis is on recording and finding your own local birds and understanding your site better. Anyone doing this? i've been inspired by a fellow blogger and it sounds quite fun. i'm trying to decide on my patch. i like the idea of long ham lakes and parts of hengistbury head, but am u sure if you can have two separate patches. also, i'm unsure how to plan out my patch in terms of kilometers. We then process it and scores start coming out a few days later as we write articles.we normally have a monthly best find round up on the blog and a magazine article on birdguides which both come out in the third week of the month. This meant there were more eurasian white fronted geese arriving off the continent, and gracing patches up and down england and some on the island mini leagues too. amongst the white fronted geese were smaller numbers of tundra bean and barnacle geese recorded. With a title like that i should get lots of hits from people looking for a cartoon character, but no, this is wow frozen for the first time since i started volunteering there in june 2015.