With lots of young fledglings about now is a good time to recordyour sightings and add the blue tits nesting in your garden, the swallows in your garage or the woodpeckers in your local wood to the records that will help form the British Trust of Ornithology’s Bird Atlas. You can sign up for the Bird Atlas at this link: http://www.bto.org/birdatlas/index.htm

Once you’ve signed up and logged in, click on ‘Add Roving Records’, use the map to navigate to the tetrad (2 x 2km map square) where you recorded the birds and put in the details, including breed code if you can.

You can go back and use the ‘square summaries’option to see your records and what other people have recorded in the tetrad or 10-km square.