Click here to play Read by Matthew Welcome to the final Chatterbox weekly report. I hope you have enjoyed each week listening to the reports and learning about the behaviour of the birds that visit our gardens, school grounds, wetlands, farmland and coastlines here [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew Just two school bird boxes have chicks still in the nest waiting to fledge. Soon the nesting season will be over and our attention will turn to caring for and helping the young chicks that [...]
Click here to play Read By Matthew Welcome back to Chatterbox. Last week I told you that on average a Blue Tit chick can eat up to 100 caterpillar grubs a day. That is a lot for an adult bird to find and collect when [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew At this time of year it is important that birds can find the right food for their growing chicks. Can you imagine how much energy goes into a growing chick? How much food they need? Can you imagine a [...]
Click to play Read by Matthew Reproduction - How many? Welcome back to Chatter Box. It has been a busy week in many of our nesting boxes as the adult birds spend all their time looking for small grubs for their hungry chicks to eat? [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew Welcome to this week's Chatterbox report. Great to see so much activity in the bird boxes over the past 7 days. So this [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew The life cycle of a bird Birds need to find a mate - that's why they sing so beautifully at this time of year. The birds then need to find somewhere warm, safe and dry to make their nest [...]
April 2018 Click here to play Read by Matthew All about birds – Bones and skeleton. Did you know birds need to be light in weight? They use a lot of energy flapping their wings to take off and fly. So the bones that make up a [...]
Read by Matthew Easter 2018 Report Spring is the time when most birds start planning ahead for the breeding season and while most will still be setting up breeding territories or finding a mate, early breeding species such as blackbird, collared dove and robin, may already have eggs or young chicks. [...]
Read by Matthew Sorting birds and learning Latin! Once you start identifying birds and spotting where each bird lives you will start to see some patterns. Have a think about how you could sort out birds into different groups? A simple way to sort out birds might be "Birds that can fly [...]
