School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)nights from the meadows - it is the corn-crake. We may notice the cuckoo which is always pursued by a small bird. This is the bird that hatched the young cuckoo out.
Before the swallows migrate they sit on the telegraph wires and seem to ask one another where they will go. The wren the "king of the birds" builds its nest on the gable walls of old houses and sits on the eggs for a period of three weeks.
The linnet's nest is to be found in a furze bush or in a tuft of grass. His plumage in Winter is grey but in Summer it changes to a bright reddish brown. Near a hedge a blackbird or thrush may be found. When the blackbird is startled she flies out with a loud alarm call which she repeats several times.
- Collector
- Julia Harrington
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John J. Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Greenane, Co. Cork
