School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0708, Page 170
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- The birds most commonly found in this district are crows, plovers, seagulls, and starlings. The smaller wild birds are sparrows, robins, wrens, yellow-hammers, martins wood peckers and many others. The cuckoo, corn crake and swallows come here in spring and leave again in autumn. This is called migration. We have also the black-bird and the thrush. They cheer us with their song during the summer months. These build their nests in tall trees or in thick hedges. Water fowl build their nests in sledge banks along rivers and lakes. The small birds makes a very cosy nest. Then they lay their eggs, from three to five, and hatch them. When the wee birds come out they are fed by the older birds with worms and insects. Seagulls fly low when they know that rain is at hand. It is said that if you kill a swallow the cows will give blood instead of milk.
- Collector
- Philip Melady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
