Birds flock to farmland this winter in a million acre count
AN army of farmers, gamekeepers and land managers turned out in droves this winter to count birds in the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s second Big Farmland Bird Count, which ran between February 7 and 15.
The five most common birds seen on farms this winter were blackbird, seen by nearly 90 per cent of farmers, followed by robin (80 per cent), blue tit (79 per cent), chaffinch (75 per cent) and carrion crow seen by more than 70 per cent of the farmers taking part.
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