During forest school, we see a robin in the trees above, and sometimes the robin hops around us, looking for food. So this week we are thinking about what a robin eats, and also how we can feed our birds in winter, when the food is not so plentiful.
The first question was “What does a robin eat?” We worked out that our robin must be an omnivore, as it likes mealworms and berries!
We took it in turns to put a small handful of mealworms in a tray for the robin. Some children were keener to do this than others!
We used the Merlin App on the iPad to record birdsong in the trees above. The app indentified the robin’s song!
This App is worth downloading on your phone, as it’s so easy to use and will identify many different birds by recording their songs. The link is here https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org
We them started to make our bird feeders. The first job was to find a stick to go through a hole in a cardboard tube. This is the perch for a visiting bird.
We coated the cardboard tube with margarine, like we were spreading butter on our toast!
We then sprinkled over a mixture of bird seeds over the margarine to make a turn the cardboard into a tasty treat for our robin.
And finally, we selected a suitable place for each bird feeder to hang, with help from Mrs Whittaker.
