School: Cushinstown (roll number 3146)
- Location:
- Cushinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Rita Dardis
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- Some of the wild birds around this district are:-
the crow, the pigeon, the hawk, the robin, the thrush the swallow, the cuckoo and the corncrake.
The swallow, corncrake and the cuckoo migrate.
Some build in banks, old walls high in the trees, while others build in bushes, and others on the ground.
The crow and the swallow are good weather prophets. When the swallow flies low it is a sign of rain. When the crow goes high up in the air and comes down on one side it is a sign of a storm.
When the birds fly low it is a sign of rain and when they fly high it is a sign of good weather
When a blackbird has a yellow beak he is a male bird. The robin's breast is red because when the crown of thorns was on our Lord the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philip Byrne
- Gender
- Male
