This week we had a visit from Lindsey Taylor from the RSPB. She had lots of interesting things to tell us about birds we see in Orkney and we had a go at making suet balls. We are going to put 2 out each day so that we can enjoy seeing birds in the playground more often. We had a super time and asked some really good questions.
We found out that collared doves like to stick with a partner. They are not very good at building nests and sometimes their eggs fall out of the nests!
We found out that starlings are good at mimicking, and sometimes they even mimic phone ringtones and sirens.
We found out that song thrushes eat snails. To get the shells off them, they pick up the snail and drop it on a stone until the shell cracks and comes off.
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