The 2021 Big Farmland Bird Count

This important initiative, supported by LEAF, offers a simple means of recording the effect of any conservation schemes currently being initiated by farmers and gamekeepers on their land such as supplementary feeding or growing wild bird seed crops and game cover crops. The 2021 Big Farmland Bird Count took place between the 5th and 21st February 2021.

We took part here at Sundey Hill Farm, following our wildlife species count with the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, for the Braydon Forest project. 

You can view our full results by clicking here. 

Sparrow Bed and Breakfast: This picture of the frost covered creeper growing on the barn is a habitat for hundreds of house sparrows, every morning, they bounce out of bed down into the chicken run below to breakfast on chicken corn. An example of how keeping and feeding farm animals has benefits for wildlife.