School: Cill a' Lachtáin

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   Usually two. Colour blue.
   Flight: High like the crow. She migrates.
   Speech: Cucukoo, Cuckoo.

   Black Bird: Nest: Made of hay, moss, line with hair. Builds in brush.
   Eggs: Spotted blue, five usually, three weeks to hatch.
   Flight: Low and quickly
   Speech: Whistling.

   Lark: Nest: Builds her nest on the ground. It is made of hay and hair.
   Eggs: Color of the ground. usually four.
   Flight: Soars high in the air.
   Speech: singing

   Robin: Nest: Builds her nest of hay, moss and hair in an old bush.
   Eggs: usually five colour spootted white three weeks to hatch.
   Flight: low and quickly
   Speech: She sings all the year.

   Wagtail: Nest: Builds her nest of hay and moss in a turf bank.
   Eggs: Usually five colour - blue.
   Flight: low and quickly . when they come into a kitchen sing of change.

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   Maudie Fahey

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