This week Club Wild took part in the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Bird watch. We set up three bird watching areas in and around the playground where we had placed bird feeders the week before in the hope that birds would come.
In our first area we turned the shelter in the playground into a bird hide, in the second area we hid in the school garden shed and the third area we made bird hides in the thicket of trees in the carpark. Using our binoculars, bird spotting books, cameras and our counting sheets we watched and listened for a full hour.
All our hard work making the bird feeders, setting them up and watching quietly rewarded us with blue tits, great tits, wood pigeons and robins in the woodland thicket. What beautiful music! We learnt that the smaller birds need the shelter of bushes and trees while the larger birds, crows, magpies and seagulls are happy scavenging in the playground when we are not there.
Look out for more winter adventures next week with Club Wild.
Cheers, Sarah-Jane
