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Use your full range of senses..! Birdwatching the observation of live birds in their natural habitat,Your peripheral vision is highly sensitive to movement (an adaptation our ancestors used to detect both predators and prey), so try to tune into what’s going on in the corners of your eyes. Listen, too – you’ll need to stop moving about to do so properly, though you can hear even the quietest calls if you listen hard enough.

There’s plenty to occupy the birdwatcher in each of the four seasons: spring for newly arrived migrants, peak birdsong, courtship and nesting behaviour; summer for parents and fledglings intent on feeding; autumn for gathering migrants; and winter for intense action around feeding stations, invasions of visitors from further north, late afternoon roosts, vast flocks of waterfowl, and starling murmurations.

Birds have daily routines as we do – and these are most predictable at the beginning and the end of the day, so these are usually the best times to watch.