By Martin Hesp
The ornithological world is full of winners and losers as climactic
and environmental conditions change - and sneaking up on the inside this year
to claim a place in the Westcountry top-ten for the first time in more than
half a decade is that busy hedgerow adventurer, the long tailed tit.
So declares the RSPB after half-a-million people joined in the world’s
largest wildlife survey to watch and count more than eight million birds during
the charity’s 37th Big Garden Birdwatch.
The tiny long-tailed tit has flown into the Big Garden Birdwatch top
10 for the first time in eight years after the average number seen visiting
gardens across the UK
increased this year by 44 per cent.
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