School: Drom na Gráinsighe (roll number 13280)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   The swallow builds hers in a cowhouse. All the birds build their nests in a very neat manner, but the one which would attract your eye mostly is that of the thrush. The is an old saying "drop upon drop makes many a river and twig upon twig makes a birds nest."

   First of all the thrush gathers some dry moss and hay and twigs . He then. He then gathers damp clay and plasters the inside of the nest with her beak. The hen sits on the nest and lays four or five beautiful blue eggs with little brown marks. They resemble the eggs of the black bird only that her eggs are of a paler blue that the thrushes.

   Sometimes naughty boys rob birds' nests. If they do so they will see that the

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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Lavin

   Gender

   Female

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   Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo