In Year 3 we're lucky enought to have a view of the school meadow. A couple of weeks ago I put the bird feeders up again along with those half coconut fat ball things.
I love being able to look out of the window and see birds feeding. It's just getting going now and the children are learning to recognise the birds on the feeder - blue tits, robins, female partridges and squirrels so far!
Last year I put sunflower seeds in the feeders and had to fill them up every two minutes so this year I decided to do mixed seed rather than sunflower seed...not very popular so might change back!
Last week - after only a couple of days of the feeders being up - we had a lesser spotted woodpecker! Woohoo!! It was kind enough to stay while and both feed from the feeder and hammer into a nearby tree....we've not seen it since then so fingers crossed it comes back.
We had woodpeckers last year on the feeders with peanuts - completely destroyed by the squirrels - so might put one up again.
I love teaching them about nature, there seems to be so much in this life we have these days that isn't anything to do with nature..hopefully by the end of Y3 they will at least be able to recognise a few birds.
I love being able to look out of the window and see birds feeding. It's just getting going now and the children are learning to recognise the birds on the feeder - blue tits, robins, female partridges and squirrels so far!
Last year I put sunflower seeds in the feeders and had to fill them up every two minutes so this year I decided to do mixed seed rather than sunflower seed...not very popular so might change back!
Last week - after only a couple of days of the feeders being up - we had a lesser spotted woodpecker! Woohoo!! It was kind enough to stay while and both feed from the feeder and hammer into a nearby tree....we've not seen it since then so fingers crossed it comes back.
We had woodpeckers last year on the feeders with peanuts - completely destroyed by the squirrels - so might put one up again.
I love teaching them about nature, there seems to be so much in this life we have these days that isn't anything to do with nature..hopefully by the end of Y3 they will at least be able to recognise a few birds.
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