School: Collon (roll number 14579)

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   “The blackbird is black with a yellow beak, lays eggs of a skyblue colour, about four or five, and these eggs are sprinkled with little brown dots and, it builds its nest in a hawthorn bush.”

   

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   The blackbird is black with a yellow beak, lay eggs of skyblue colour, about four or five, and these eggs are sprinkled with little brown dots and, it builds it's nest in a hawthorn bush.
   Thrush makes her nest in a very close whitethorn bush, lays not more than five whitish eggs with brown spots like the blackbird and is a great warbler. The lark is a great singer but is smaller than the thrush, and makes her nest in the long grass or corn.
   The wren is the smallest of wild birds about the size of a pigeons egg of a brown colour, she is often captured by wren boys, on St Stephen days, a subscription is given at each house to help to bury the wren if this is refuse the wren boys

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy O' Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drogheda Road, Co. Louth