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Click here to play Read by Matthew Welcome to the final Chatterbox weekly report. I hope you have enjoyed each week listening to the reports and learning about the behaviour of the birds that visit our gardens, school grounds, wetlands, farmland and coastlines here in [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew Just two school bird boxes have chicks still in the nest waiting to fledge. Soon the nesting season will be over and our attention will turn to caring for and helping the young chicks that have [...]
Click here to play Read By Matthew Welcome back to Chatterbox. Last week I told you that on average a Blue Tit chick can eat up to 100 caterpillar grubs a day. That is a lot for an adult bird to find and collect when they [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew At this time of year it is important that birds can find the right food for their growing chicks. Can you imagine how much energy goes into a growing chick? How much food they need? Can you imagine a [...]
Click to play Read by Matthew Reproduction - How many? Welcome back to Chatter Box. It has been a busy week in many of our nesting boxes as the adult birds spend all their time looking for small grubs for their hungry chicks to eat? Watching the live video [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew Welcome to this week's Chatterbox report. Great to see so much activity in the bird boxes over the past 7 days. So this [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew The life cycle of a bird Birds need to find a mate - that's why they sing so beautifully at this time of year. The birds then need to find somewhere warm, safe and dry to make their nest [...]
April 2021 Click here to play Read by Matthew All about birds – Bones and skeleton. Did you know birds need to be light in weight? They use a lot of energy flapping their wings to take off and fly. So the bones that make up a [...]
Read by Matthew Easter 2022 Report Spring is the time when most birds start planning ahead for the breeding season and while most will still be setting up breeding territories or finding a mate, early breeding species such as blackbird, collared dove and robin, may already have eggs or young chicks. Species [...]
Read by Matthew Sorting birds and learning Latin! Once you start identifying birds and spotting where each bird lives you will start to see some patterns. Have a think about how you could sort out birds into different groups? A simple way to sort out birds might be "Birds that can [...]
Welcome to The Bird Box 2022 Project! Read by Matthew Click to play This is probably the best time of year to identify birds for many reasons. Spring is the time of year that every birds plumage looks its best as [...]
Our last topic has been Migration - some birds will say "Goodbye" in the autumn. It is also the end of the this year's Birdbox project So summer arrives, spring ends and the little chicks that we have been following are now out and about. So whilst it seems sad that the Birdbox project [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew Welcome to the final Chatterbox weekly report. I hope you have enjoyed each week listening to the reports and learning about the behaviour of the birds that visit our gardens, school grounds, wetlands, farmland and coastlines here in [...]
Click here to play Read by Matthew Just two school bird boxes have chicks still in the nest waiting to fledge. Soon the nesting season will be over and our attention will turn to caring for and helping the young chicks that have [...]
http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/audio-week-10a.mp3 Click here to play Read By Matthew Welcome back to Chatterbox. Last week I told you that on average a Blue Tit chick can eat up to 100 caterpillar grubs a day. That is a lot for an adult bird to find and collect when they go outside searching for food to feed their young. Young chicks will continue to need feeding after they...
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http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/audio-week-9.mp3 Click here to play Read by Matthew At this time of year it is important that birds can find the right food for their growing chicks. Can you imagine how much energy goes into a growing chick? How much food they need? Can you imagine a Blue tit looking for enough caterpillars to feed 10 chicks AND find food for itself?
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http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bees-week-4a.mp3 Click to play Read by Matthew Reproduction – How many? Welcome back to Chatter Box. It has been a busy week in many of our nesting boxes as the adult birds spend all their time looking for small grubs for their hungry chicks to eat? Watching the live video streams have you ever thought why some birds lay more eggs than others?
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http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/audio-week-7.mp3 Click here to play Read by Matthew Welcome to this week's Chatterbox report. Great to see so much activity in the bird boxes over the past 7 days. So this week we shall be finding out how birds keep their precious eggs safe from predators. Some birds make their nests in crazy places! Did you know? The Skylark makes its nest in...
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http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/audio-week-6.mp3 Click here to play Read by Matthew The life cycle of a bird Birds need to find a mate – that's why they sing so beautifully at this time of year. The birds then need to find somewhere warm, safe and dry to make their nest – perhaps in your nest box where the female will lay her precious eggs! Here the eggs will be kept warm...
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April 2021 http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/audio-week-5-2018.mp3 Click here to play Read by Matthew All about birds – Bones and skeleton. Did you know birds need to be light in weight? They use a lot of energy flapping their wings to take off and fly. So the bones that make up a bird's skeleton must be light as well as strong to do their job. A bird’s main limb bones are...
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http://www.seenature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/audio-week-4-2018.mp3 Read by Matthew Easter 2021 Report Spring is the time when most birds start planning ahead for the breeding season and while most will still be setting up breeding territories or finding a mate, early breeding species such as blackbird, collared dove and robin, may already have eggs or young chicks.
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