Year 2 went bird watching from the school hide this morning. They all practised focussing the binoculars on far and near objects. They spotted the following birds: Blue tit, Great tit, Collared Dove, Magpie, Goldfinch, Carrion Crow, Stock Dove, Blackbird and Chaffinch. HR wondered why Blue tits have an undulating (up and down) flight. The Chaffinch, Blackbird, Crow and the Collared Dove only ate food from the ground. When Mrs Mahadevan was tidying up at the end she spotted a Squirrel feeding from the ground feeder.

The children also paired up to watch some of our non-camera bird boxes; they saw Blue Tits going in and out of the Car Park box and also the Silver Birch box. JH and RL heard the chicks calling from the Silver Birch box.

Here are some photographs taken by the children.