Deidre Alden, the seat's Tory candidate at the next election, said: "I don't get many free evenings, but when I have had in the past couple of weeks I've been glued to the BBC's Springwatch programme."
Edgbaston constituency has a long history as a twitcher's haven.
Presenter Bill Oddie spent his boyhood living in Quinton and did his first bird watching at the reservoir in Bartley Green.