Hello and welcome to our weekly Forest School blog number 5.
It’s not easy being a Blue tit chick, they need perseverance and determination. Watch to see Super Chick!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XK8CjG6glz00bCrZz_ojNd4r7rjky_iN
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1109cYcbHAOrEaiS7HqU1QNq4vF5s-pB3
We think all 8 eggs have hatched!
It is so tricky to see all the chicks at one time as they are constantly wriggling about. Both parents collect caterpillars and insects throughout the day to feed them. They all compete for food, making so much noise to attract attention with their yellow beaks wide open.
Here’s a few new videos for you to enjoy.
How many can you spot?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1J9AVIkKIEa7j5KmXNSveu3VEu98Enggr
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17iLp2jCzQkDPrD3XB-MS7KIiF4OQamWv
Make a Blue tit mask.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/globalassets/downloads/kids--schools/make-a-blue-tit-mask.pdf
International Dawn Chorus Day – 3/5/20
International Dawn Chorus Day takes place on the first Sunday of May every year. It is a worldwide celebration of nature's greatest symphony. All across the world people get up early to listen to the sweet sound of birdsong.
At 5am on that Sunday morning when it was still dark, I walked to a wood close to my home to listen to the most amazing celebration of sound. As the light increased the beauty of the woodland at dawn was revealed.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QDUqJVBrA2B6_Ou41CViN86VQx1O8huE
While walking close to my home I have also heard our Cuckoo and for the very first time, I heard a Nightingale.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r1I_qIEVwEq2SFHdotfMDxXEpJyojR0S
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A8OOG-dzt1zeBNoHapUAWSHjmOcHspvq
Minibeasts
What is your favourite minibeast? I can never decide, they are all amazing in their own way. A woodlouse rolls into a ball when threatened, a snail has eyespots on its upper tentacles and feels and smells with their lower tentacles and bees have 5 eyes and six legs!
Can you make your favourite minibeast? You could make it out of Lego, mud and sticks, boxes and containers or even play dough. Be creative.
Wild Weaving
You can create a weaving loom from a Y shaped stick or a piece of cardboard (I used a cereal box). Use string, garden twine or wool to make your loom and then weave whatever you can find into it.
If you have an area nearby where the grass hasn’t been cut for a while there will be plenty of different things you can collect from there or in your garden or on a walk.
Why not add a dandelion, clover, different types of grasses or a feather?
Have lots of fun!
Mrs Morris