The Great Out-tours - Aberdeen

Dear Parents / Grannies / Grandads / Brothers / Sisters / Carers & Guardians of our amazing school children across the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧

Good evening!

😍🪶TOGETHER LET’S MAKE IT COUNT, by taking part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, 24 – 26 January 2025 😍🪶

🎥👉 https://youtu.be/nldtLbyIU6I?si=wpJa-r3UK3ZJ1VB5

🪶🌍 Across The Great Out-tours winter afterschool club programme, we are focusing activities around our wild British birds and heralding THIS WEEKEND'S RSPB 'BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH' (24-26 JANUARY 2025), the world’s largest garden wildlife survey.😳👇🏻
https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch

😃👀✍ To a club child, they were ALL VERY KEEN TO PARTAKE!
Farmer John and his team WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO SHARE THIS GREAT EVENT WITH YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU MIGHT HAVE A GO, WITH YOUR CHILDREN THIS SUNNY WEEKEND (24-26 JANUARY 2025).

🐦 🎵 Tweeet, twEET!

🙏☕ RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch Survey: A special hour!

⏰ Reserve ONE HOUR in your weekend, make a brew ☕, and spend it with your child(ren) just looking for the bird activity in your garden/balcony or local park.

⚠️😳 OUR BRITISH BIRDS ARE IN TROUBLE AND YOUR CHILDREN / YOU REPRESENT THEIR CHANCE TO SURVIVE.🙏

📋 HOW TO TAKE PART❓

🎥 Simply click this video link and follow the prompts: 👇🏻
https://youtu.be/nldtLbyIU6I?si=wpJa-r3UK3ZJ1VB5

📋 All you need to know! 👇🏻

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch

🪶Survey recording sheet: Need a help with bird ID❓

📋 Use our 20-bird spotting guide (adapted from the ‘Birdwatch Bingo’ activity we are running at clubs this term): 👇🏻
https://thegreatout-tours.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the-great-out-tours-big-garden-birdwatch-recording-sheet-2024.-20-birds.pdf

🐦 RSPB BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH Printable Guide (featuring a 15 bird spotting sheet)!🐦 👇🏻

https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbase-prod.rspb-prod.magnolia-platform.com%2Fdam%2Fjcr%3A705d419d-92a2-4675-8237-6aae0ff23259%2FBig%2520Garden%2520Birdwatch%2520-%2520How%2520To%2520-%2520English.pdf&data=05%7C02%7C%7C47ec5545405646796fdc08dc1befb257%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638415963592252997%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CIIoVq2AB%2FfXE%2B7XxbAseBOHb1z%2FRFRZNhpCOpqlYLg%3D&reserved=0

🤩 🐦 Help attract the birds with some household scrap nibbles: 👇🏻
Check out the RSPCA weblink BELOW, for some handy tips on what household leftovers to put out this weekend AND BEYOND.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/wildlife/birds/feeding

📢 A message from the RSPB!

"Big Garden Birdwatch is fun, free and for EVERYONE…and you don’t need a garden to take part! Be wowed by your local wildlife.

😳 Last year (2024) across the UK🇬🇧, over 600,000 people took part in Big Garden Birdwatch, counting a whopping 9.7 million birds!

1️⃣ House Sparrows took the top spot, but counts of these chirpy birds are down by 60% compared to the first Birdwatch in 1979.

😞 Sadly, we’ve lost 38 million birds from UK skies in the last 60 years.

🐦 With birds facing so many challenges, it’s more important than ever to get involved in the Birdwatch. Every bird you do – or don’t – count will give us a valuable insight into how garden birds are faring.”

😀 Now it’s over to you! Put a feather 🪶in your caps, have fun on the survey hour and 👉🏻 DON’T FORGET TO LOG YOUR RESULTS WITH THE RSPB at https://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch before 23 February 2025. 👈🏻

🪶Happy Spotting🪶!

😃 From Farmer John and all the UK 🇬🇧 Great Out-tours team 😃

🌱 Plants are for LIFE ⁉️ TODAY, 12th May is 'International Day of Plant Health'.
🎥 https://youtu.be/tgyo9tg9o_s?feature=shared

Did you know❓

We depend on PLANTS for 80 percent of the food we eat and 98 percent of the oxygen we breathe.

😳Three Frightening Facts⚠️:

1️⃣ International travel and trade have been associated with the introduction and spread of plant pests.

2️⃣ Invasive pest species are one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss and threaten the delicate web of life that sustains our planet.

3️⃣ Protecting plant health is essential by promoting environmentally friendly practices such as pest management.

Why an International Day of Plant Health❓

The United Nations designated 12 May the International Day of Plant Health (IDPH) to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect biodiversity and the environment, and boost economic development.

⌚ TIME TO PUT PLANTS FIRST 🌱.

👉 Find out more and see how YOU CAN GET INVOLVED: https://www.fao.org/plant-health-day/en

🎥 https://youtu.be/tgyo9tg9o_s?feature=shared