School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)

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   The cuck-coo
   The cuckoo never builds a nest but lays in other birds nest where She lay four eggs. The other birds are pushed out and fall from the tree and are killed. A cuckoo lays eggs about a mile from our house.

   The lark
   The lark makes her nest in the back of a tuft of grass in the bog at the back of our house She builds every year in the one bog. One morning as I was going to the well she soared upwards Then I went to the spot where she rose. I saw a big tuft of grass and I found the nest.

   

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   The swallows goes away to another country in the month of August. They came back in the spring of the year. They build in the thatch of a shed and she lays five eggs. When the young bird come out they stay about their nest for a few weeks The cuckcoo The cuckcoo goes away in June and comes back in April. She doesnt build her nest. She lays in some other nest and not

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Mc Dermott

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Dermott

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Castlepole, Co. Meath