School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

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1. Bird-Lore - Nests (continued)

   

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   There is a hawthorn bush behind our house. In it a thrush lives. A blackbird lives in the same ditch.
   Every year a corncrake comes to this district. She moves about from field to field. Starlings are very plentiful here in winter.

   

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2. Bird-Lore - Description of Nest

   

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   The robin's nest is round. It makes its nest of moss, hair and feathers. It lays four or five eggs. Their colour is speckled brown. The blackbirds nest is round like a basin. It is made of mud and hair. The eggs are blue. The thrushe's nest is the same shape as the other two. It makes it with hair and moss. Its eggs are streaky. The sparrow's nest is round. It makes it of hay and lines it with feathers. The eggs are white. The crow makes its nest with sticks and hay or straw. The eggs are speckled blue. It is round also. The wren makes its nest of moss hair

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Edward Kirwan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knockagh, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   William Kirwan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knockagh, Co. Tipperary