School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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“There were Brahmin hens and Bantam cocks, and Loughrans there to crow.”
There were Brahmin hens and Bantam cocks,
and Loughrans there to crow,
And they all had pruned their feathers,
For the Kenstown Show.
Friesiouns are hens with all their feathers facing up towards their heads.- Other birds that stay all winter are the Crow, the linnet, the salley-picker, the Owl, the curlew, the snipe, the kingfisher, the rain bird (or golden wren), the ball cruet, the heron, the dipper, the sedge-warbler, the greenfinch, the sparrow, hawk, the Treecreeper.The Crow builds on a tree with no brambles on the bottom. It builds with sprigs and leaves and lines it with wool. It lays three eggs of a blueish colour. It hatches for one month. |
The Linnet builds in a furze bush with straws(continues on next page)