School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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- (continued from previous page)it with mud and she lines it with hay. She lays six eggs and the colour of them is white. The robin builds her nest in a bank. She builds it with moss and she lines it with hair. The weather can be judged in our district by certain birds. When the swallows fly low it is a sign of rain. Their food is flies and when there is rain coming the flies always fly low. For the same reason swallows fly high in fine weather. It is a sign of rain when the curlew is heard calling. It is a sign of a storm when the seagulls come inland. When the wild geese come from the north it is the sign of snow
- The common wild birds found in my district are the swallow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Halpin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheepstown, Co. Westmeath