Big School Birdwatch

Today we took part in the RSPB's Big School Birdwatch event. You have to watch and count the birds at school for 1 hour and here are our results:

2 blackbirds
3 blue tits
2 robins
1 coal tit
2 great tits
2 redwings
9 wood pigeons
2 crows
1 chaffinch
2 greenfinches
1 dunnock
1 collared dove
1 sparrowhawk

We did so well - the birds are very hungry at the moment!  I have sent our results to the RSPB and we have been entered in a prize draw. Well done everyone!

Mrs Longmoor

Bird of the Day - Blue Tit

Despite the snow we managed to spend a bit of time today watching the birds in the wildlife garden - not as much about as usual but the birds were probably sheltering from the snow. We spotted:

1 pigeon
1 collared dove
1 robin
1 great tit
2 blackbirds
1 long-tailed tit

and BOTD was a blue tit



It's really important to keep feeding the birds during snowy weather.

Until next time

Mrs Longmoor

Recycle Your Christmas Cards!

At school we are collecting your Christmas Cards so they can be recycled by The Woodland Trust. So if you took all yours down at the week-end please bring them in to school and put them in the big box in the family room. Let's see if we can beat last year's total!

Bird of the Day - 2 Robins

First day back at school today and our feeders were all empty! I filled them up again but it looked like the birds had forgotten about us at Birdwathcing Club at playtime when we saw only 1 wood pigeon and a pair of collared doves. By lunchtime however, the birds were back! We spotted:

1 coal tit

1 dunnock

1 great tit

1 wood pigeon

and bird of the day - 2 robins



 Robins don't normally get along and can be very territorial so we were lucky to see two in our garden.

The children were very keen to know today how many birds I have seen ever and how I know so much about birds. Well the answer is I have seen over 200 different types of bird so far (and still counting!) and I found out about birds from reading books and going on the internet, but mostly just from taking time to look for birds in my garden and at the park and to learn what they were. That is why birdwatching is such a great hobby and you never stop learning new things about birds!

Until next time

Mrs Longmoor