{"id":19975,"date":"2022-01-28T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:37:14","slug":"big-garden-birdwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/01\/28\/big-garden-birdwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Garden Birdwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the boys and girls have taken part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2022. We started by trying to invite the birds in to the garden. Helen and the children discussed what birds might use to create their nests and filled the whisks with a variety of these items and also some seeds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19976\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/1359BD5C-B44B-4844-B466-3FEA6E6EAFDD.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19976\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/1359BD5C-B44B-4844-B466-3FEA6E6EAFDD-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThey like fluff.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We looked at pictures of the most common garden birds and learned the names of them and also some of their features. Then we created a chart to record which birds we saw and how many of each type.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19977\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/8BD1BE11-00D2-4DDE-A391-97642D74C8FB.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19977\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/8BD1BE11-00D2-4DDE-A391-97642D74C8FB-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cI like robins.\u201d<br \/>\u201cI see blackbirds in my granny\u2019s garden.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We used the binoculars to look for birds and then marked which ones we saw on the chart.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19978\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/E35421AB-D355-497A-A26A-4C8280B26FE0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19978\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/E35421AB-D355-497A-A26A-4C8280B26FE0-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cI saw two and two blackbirds, that makes four!\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The children even drew pictures of their favourite birds. Look at this lovely starling!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/CFE3F726-6EB8-4E41-895B-7F16BAA2840D.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19979\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/01\/CFE3F726-6EB8-4E41-895B-7F16BAA2840D-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Big Garden Birdwatch runs from the 28-30th January, you can find more details on the RSPB website. Why not take part and share your findings with us on Twitter. Have a nice weekend \ud83e\udd9c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the boys and girls have taken part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2022. We started by trying to invite the birds in to the garden. Helen and the children discussed what birds might use to create their nests and filled the whisks with a variety of these items and also some seeds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/01\/28\/big-garden-birdwatch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Garden Birdwatch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,5556,135],"tags":[446966,446967,446588,446965],"class_list":["post-19975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numeracy","category-outdoor-learning","category-science","tag-birdwatch","tag-data-handling","tag-outdoor-learning","tag-rspb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}