School: Newtown, Fertullagh
- Location:
- Newtownlow, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: K. Shumacher
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- (continued from previous page)the sea and if he goes out to the sea it is calm.
- The following wild birds are found in our district : - Crows, starlings, blackbirds, thrushes, robins, chaffinches, goldfinches, swallows, swifts, wrens, Willie-Wagtails, magpies, sand-martins, stone chatters, sally-pickers, bats, curlews, cuckoos, blue-tits, jackdaws, seagulls, crested wrens, snipe, plover, partridge, pheasant, grouse, cranes, carrion crows, water-hens, corncrakes, bog larks, sky larks, pigeons, hawks, wild duck, teale, saw-bill-divers, and a few owls.Most of the birds in our district migrate such as the sand martins, swallows, swifts, starlings, snipe, cuckoo, curlew, corn-crake, plover, wild duck, saw-bill-diver and teale.The following birds build their nests in bushes : - thrushes, blackbirds, chaffinches, wrens, sally pickers, gold finches and crested wrens.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Violet Matthews
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath