Big Schools' Bird Watch 30/01/24

Armed with our binoculars, we carried out the birdwatch in 2 halves and overall spotted 32 birds. The most popular birds were starlings - we saw 18 at once roosting in one of the larger trees in one of the neighbouring gardens.
The weather had been very windy leading up to the birdwatch and so our fat ball feeder had got damaged and had blown to the ground.
We saw hedge sparrows, blackbirds and finches in the hedge, magpies roosting and swooping over the site, and a couple of robins bobbing around.  We saw less birds than we were expecting, but know that we could perhaps have been quieter bird watchers.

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We each had a clothes peg to hold in one hand and we had to put our other hand behind our back. The clothes peg represented a bird's beak. We had to see what we could find and pick up with our beak. It could be for food or for nest building. It's not as easy as you would imagine!