School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (C.) (roll number 6845)
- Location:
- Caisleán Ó Liatháin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: S. Ní Mhuchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 190
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- (continued from previous page)The Wren builds in old houses, bushes - holes in walls, trees, holes in trees. She lays 21 eggs.The Pheasant builds in bogs, brakes, ditches big trees, furze and sometimes in a meadow or by a deep dyke covered with briars.The Bullfinch builds in trees.The Starling builds in holes in walls and trees.The "Béní" (smaller than the wren - they'd spit at you if you went near em") builds in holes in walls and in hollow trees.The Water-hen builds in rushes and in switch grass. "If you got her out in the middle of the field you could catch her' - she couldn't run at all in the grass." "There's water-hens outside in the river behind the garden near the school."The Corncrake nests in meadows and corn. The eggs are bluey green with green spots on them.
- Gulls flying inland denote bad weather.
Starlings & [?] in flocks on the ground foretell hardweather.(continues on next page)
