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🐦 "Big Bird Watch 2025: Join the UK’s Biggest Birdwatching Event! 🌿"
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Feb 27, 2025
🌿 Big Bird Watch 2025! It’s time to grab a cuppa, pick up your binoculars, and take part in the UK’s biggest birdwatching event! 🐦📋 Spend an hour spotting garden birds and help protect our precious wildlife. Will you be joining in this year? Share what you see! #BigBirdWatch #Birdwatching #UKBirds #WildlifeConservation #GardenBirds #NatureLovers #BirdWatch2025
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welcome to gardening with Ben your go-to
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podcast for all things green and growing
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in
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2025 whether you are a seasoned Gardener
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a budding Enthusiast or just curious
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about cultivating your own slice of
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nature you're in the right place join me
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Ben as we explore practical tips
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inspiring stories and the latest trends
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in gardening to make your outdoor space
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Bloom with life from allotment
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Adventures to Wild life friendly
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gardening I'm here to help you grow your
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passion and reap the rewards so grab
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your gloves roll up your sleeves and
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let's get started on this year's
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gardening
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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podcast it's Friday Friday's here the
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weekend is finally upon us pretty
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soon so what is happening this weekend
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it is the Big Bird Watch yes we will be
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watching the birds The Feathered variety
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of birds and we will be counting them to
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see how many different varieties we see
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or how many birds come down at once and
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it's quite hard obviously you will uh
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they say that it's best
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to capture within an hour how many birds
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you see at one time and and CU obviously
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you'll see a blue it come have some seed
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and then it'll fly off again but it's
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how many birds you see in one go is how
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it counts I believe I need to read up on
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that but what can we do for the birds in
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our garden how can we encourage the
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birds to come down and what is the
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purpose of bothering to feed the birds
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in our garden
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as obviously I love seeing the birds
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down at my alotment I was down at the
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alotment uh the last weekend and all I
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could hear was the birds singing it was
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absolutely beautiful and obviously
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there's not many birds around at the
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moment because some are migrated Etc
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some are
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hibernating and yeah you don't see as
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many birds around at this time of year
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but the birds that you do see are
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absolutely gorgeous and we had the
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Robbin come down in my Shedd the weekend
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and it just sat there and I managed to
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get a fantastic photo if you've not seen
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that photo check it out it's on my
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Instagram and on my Facebook and my goal
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this weekend is going to be to try and
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get a robin to come and land in my hand
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and take a photo of it that is what I
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want to try and do that would make an
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absolutely fantastic
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photo so but Robbins are really really
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tame so hopefully we will get that Robin
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to land in his hand and get that
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photo and obviously different birds like
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different seed or varieties out there
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obviously you've got your fat balls
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which uh your Robins like your Blu tis
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like you've got your meal worms which
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Robins again like you've got your
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sunflower seeds and you've got
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your uh peanuts as well there's many
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different varieties out there you can
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also help the birds the black birds that
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are and get some sultanas and Masons
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they absolutely love them so I purchased
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some sultanas and Masons this weekend to
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put out for them because I love seeing
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the black birds as well the black birds
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make a lovely singing sound while you're
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down there we used to have some black
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birds in our old house garden and you
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used to walk down garden and they used
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to like fly at you because theyve got
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some babies in a nest nearby they were
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really really protective of the babies
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Birds but why should we encourage Birds
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to our garden well the reason why we
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need to encourage the birds to the
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Garden is because they are natural
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Predators they will come and they will
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eat the slugs in your garden so if
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you've got lots of birds coming down in
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your garden the chances are they'll fly
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into one of your vegetables and get the
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Slugs the insects out of your vegetables
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and out of your flowers so obviously
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attracting the birds to your garden is
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another thing but there is downsides
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obviously they can attract rats they can
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attract mice they can attract squirrels
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to your garden I don't mind squirrels in
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my garden I absolutely love seeing the
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squirrels yes they can be a pain they
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can pull stuff up and can eat some stuff
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and they can eat all your seed in your
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seed feeders and all the peanuts but I
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don't mind seeing the squirrels down in
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my garden and obviously we've got a cat
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on our allotment site so if there's rats
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and mice around the cat will catch so
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everything works in its own way
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obviously if you've got it in your
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garden you're not you don't necessarily
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want R some mice in your garden do you
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but I don't mind on my allotment as long
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as nothing's harming me I'm all for the
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Wildlife In the
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Garden and I'm going to try and do more
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to encourage the wildlife in our garden
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and one of the things what I did last
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weekend is I must have spent about 30 on
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bird
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stuff uh uh this is my hobby at end of
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the day I'd rather spend money on my
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allotment than waste it away on
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rubbish so we've been obviously getting
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uh We've purchased some peanuts we've
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purchased some bird seed we purchased
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some sunflower seed we've purchased five
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new bird feeders yes five so I've got
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I'll have about nine up in total so
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hopefully we'll be getting the birds
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flock into our alotment
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and enjoy them we B bought some um SE
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balls we' bought some sew blocks to put
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in our s block holders cuz we've got
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some new ones of those this year so we
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need to fill them up we've also got some
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raisins and sultanas because we want to
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feed the black birds down at the
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alotment I want to see more black birds
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down at my alotment and obviously the
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different types of bird seed can attract
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different birds so I'm hoping to start
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attracting the green finishes and
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chaffinches as obviously I always see
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the blue tis and the Robbins down there
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but I don't often see the chaffinches
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or green fines down there so hopefully
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we'll get lots more varieties of birds
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coming and hopefully helping them and
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looking after them because that's what
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we want to do we want to attract the
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birds down to our allotment I absolutely
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love it we've got up three bird houses
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now we've got two up for blue tis and
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we've got one up for sparrows as well
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and I'm looking at investing in getting
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some Robbin houses as well so obviously
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they're nesting nearby because we've got
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lots of Robbins down on our plot so
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they're obviously nesting somewhere but
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what I I want to do is trying to attract
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more more and more birds to my garden
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and I'm even looking at getting a owl
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house because my allotment is like not
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too far away from like woods and stuff
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and it's pretty an open site so if I
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could attract an owl to our site that
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would be absolutely fantastic so if
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anybody's got any owl houses let me know
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I've I've had a look online I've
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researched them and I just fancy having
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an owl on my
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plot because I've got my Wildlife
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cameras up and everything now so to see
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an hourl on one of my Wildlife cameras
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it be
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phenomenal but we can we can try
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different things there's plenty of
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different houses out there for different
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birds to come and visit the plot I just
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want to do my little bit and encourage
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the wildlife and like I said I've not
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got a garden my allotment is my garden
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so I Don't Mind Investing in putting
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money into my plot and enjoying the
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rewards as it it's the thing that helps
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me with my mental health so I hope that
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you're all going to get involved in the
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Big Bird watch this
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weekend even if it's just buying one
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bird feeder as if you're wanting to get
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involved like I went to Morrison's and
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their bird feed over5 and it comes
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filled with seed so you can just go out
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and get one of those and stick it up and
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if you want to get involved with on
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Saturday and Sunday put it out on Friday
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and a few days before the Big Bird Watch
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and then the birds will be able to find
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it and see it and then you'll be able to
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get involved in the Big Bird watch at
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the weekend and let me know how you get
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on let me know what birds you see in
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your garden I'd love to hear what you
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get and hopefully we'll get get some
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good footage down at the allotment
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tomorrow cuz that's what we want some
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decent footage and some great photos so
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until next time everyone remember keep
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smiling keep shining and keep gardening
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