School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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- (continued from previous page)The crow is also a wise bird they build their nests on the first day of March and if it falls on a Sunday they will wait until Monday.
- The most common birds in the district are the crow, the robin, the swallow and the thrush, and the cuckoo, most of the birds lay five eggs. They build their nest in roofs of houses, and in eaves of houses and bushes. They make their nest out of little sticks and hair and little pieces of wool. they sit on the nest three weeks. You can judge the weather by the birds when they are flying low. When the whitecrows come in on the land,(continues on next page)
