School: Béal Átha Feorainne (B.) (roll number 1866)

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1. Composition - Wild Birds (continued)

   

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   bush or ditch. She goes into a stable where a horse feeds so that she will get the grains of oats that fall out.

   The blackbird is a little bigger than the robin. He is black in colour. Some have black beaks and feet and others have yellow feet and yellow beaks. He lays about from four to five eggs and hatches about four weeks. He eats snails and worms and other insects. When you hear a blackbird singing outside your window in the morning it is the sign of a bad day. If you see a 'white' blackbird outside your door singing she is singing for death and nine days after that there is some person in that

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anthony Lynch

   Gender

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   Carrowkeel, Co. Ros Comáin