devilbirder
Well-known member
Hello everyone,
If you can't be bothered reading all this readthe summary at the bottom!
Seeing the success of my two bird points games and birderbf's ABA version I have decided to create a version that even backyard birdwatchers can take part in. It is simpler and easier to count up your scores with scores being from one to ten instead of 10 to 100. I hope this game will be popular.
The points are based on how rare the 70 most common British garden birds are as a whole in British gardens. For example, 1 points means a bird which, generally is very common in British gardens, eg a Woodpigeon and 10 would be a bird that is virtually never seen in an average British garden, eg a Lesser-spotted Woodpecker.
OK, so now you know how the points work, you need to know how to count them. Next to every bird there is a number between 1 and ten. For every bird that you have seen in your garden, add the points next to them to your score.
The aim of this game is to see the value of your garden bird-wise. I could post it all in one installment but then it wouldn't be so fun and competitive etc so there will be seven installments of ten.
YOU CAN COUNT FLYOVERS AND IF HAVE SEEN ANY ADDITIONAL SPECIES, YOU WILL GET 10 POINTS BUT TELL ME FIRST.
EUROPEANS CAN PLAY IN CATEGORY B (BRITISH CATEGORY A) BUT SORRY I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK FOR AMERICANS.
Here is the key:
1 Very Common
2 Common
3 Quite Common
4 Regular
5 Occasional Visitor
6 Rare but does visit fairly regularly
7 Seen in an average garden very rarely
8 Seen in an average garden only a few times ever
9 Seen in an average garden only two or three times ever
10 Seen only once over or never in an average garden
Any questions ask me. (summary- for every bird you have seen in your garden add up the points next to them to give you the total of that installment, wait till the next installment to add more birds to your total. Points are for how rare the 70 commonest garden birds are as a whole in Britain)
If you can't be bothered reading all this readthe summary at the bottom!
Seeing the success of my two bird points games and birderbf's ABA version I have decided to create a version that even backyard birdwatchers can take part in. It is simpler and easier to count up your scores with scores being from one to ten instead of 10 to 100. I hope this game will be popular.
The points are based on how rare the 70 most common British garden birds are as a whole in British gardens. For example, 1 points means a bird which, generally is very common in British gardens, eg a Woodpigeon and 10 would be a bird that is virtually never seen in an average British garden, eg a Lesser-spotted Woodpecker.
OK, so now you know how the points work, you need to know how to count them. Next to every bird there is a number between 1 and ten. For every bird that you have seen in your garden, add the points next to them to your score.
The aim of this game is to see the value of your garden bird-wise. I could post it all in one installment but then it wouldn't be so fun and competitive etc so there will be seven installments of ten.
YOU CAN COUNT FLYOVERS AND IF HAVE SEEN ANY ADDITIONAL SPECIES, YOU WILL GET 10 POINTS BUT TELL ME FIRST.
EUROPEANS CAN PLAY IN CATEGORY B (BRITISH CATEGORY A) BUT SORRY I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK FOR AMERICANS.
Here is the key:
1 Very Common
2 Common
3 Quite Common
4 Regular
5 Occasional Visitor
6 Rare but does visit fairly regularly
7 Seen in an average garden very rarely
8 Seen in an average garden only a few times ever
9 Seen in an average garden only two or three times ever
10 Seen only once over or never in an average garden
Any questions ask me. (summary- for every bird you have seen in your garden add up the points next to them to give you the total of that installment, wait till the next installment to add more birds to your total. Points are for how rare the 70 commonest garden birds are as a whole in Britain)
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