It’s all eyes on the garden this weekend at our St Catherine’s nursing home in Newcastle, when residents join in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
The birdwatch, between 28 and 30 January, helps build a picture of garden wildlife across the UK and, last year, more than half a million people took part.
The home, which boasts not only a large sheltered garden with trees, shrubs and raised beds, but also a small courtyard with potted plants and shrubs, attracts a variety of birds. Staff and residents always keep the bird feeders well stocked, but they have made some extra treats especially for this weekend.
Claire Graham, manager of our Parkhead Resource Centre for adults with learning disabilities in Ashington, popped in to lend a hand, stringing peanuts onto strips of ribbon. The birds will have to do a little work to open the shells to get to the nuts, but that will give everyone more time to enjoy watching them.