School: Collon (roll number 14579)

Location:: Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:: Bean Uí Mhathúna

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early in September it is a sign of a long hard Winter. When swallows fly low to the ground it is a sign of coming rain.

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“The following are the wild birds which are known in the district, the robin, wen, stone-chatter, chaffinch, jay-thrush, wag-tail, house and hedge-sparrow, magpie, crow, sgal-crow, black-bird, sea-gull, crane, pheasant, wood-cock, and curlews or cold birds as they are mostly called. and wild geese.”

The following are the wild birds which are known in the district, the robin, wren, stone-chatter, chaffinch, jay-thrush, wag-tail, house and hedge-sparrow, magpie, crow, sgal-crow, black-bird, sea-gull, crane, pheasant, wood-cock and curlews or cold birds as the are mostly called, and wild geese.
When the call of the curlew is hearn it is a sign for rain, when the wild geese come from the north it is the sign that there is a storm near hand. The swallows are noted for their singular habits of coming back to the same nest

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