Friday, 14 January 2011

A Wintry New Year

This week we returned to school. It has been very snowy and icy all week with torrential rain coming in on Thursday and Friday!
We have signed up to participate in the RSPB "big bird watch" at the end of the month (if interested see their web site at www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch ). Despite us not seeing any birds yet, all our fat balls have been eaten over the holidays. The seeds all went, but the nuts were still there. We want to encourage the birds, and get them used to feeding in the garden, so this week we put more fat balls out and made fresh ones to set for next week.
They contain seeds, porridge oats and melted lard. This time around, we didn't put holes in the pots, but tied washers onto the string to help it stay down whilst the mixture was poured.

Cutting the pots off the previously made fat balls ready to hang them out.




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