Spy cameras capture birdlife at a Hartford school (From Northwich Guardian)
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Spy cameras capture birdlife at a Hartford school
2:15pm Monday 6th February 2012 in News
Emily Calloway and Emily Case, both nine, work out which birds they saw during the bird count. A nuthatch is shown on the screen.
MODERN technology has been drafted into a big bird count at a Hartford school.
Pupils at Hartford Manor Community Primary School enlisted spy cameras as well as binoculars when they investigated an hour of birdlife visiting their playground as part of a national survey.
Dave Bedford, Year Four teacher, said: “This is the third year we’ve done the bird count but the first year we’ve gone for the hi-tech approach – it’s something slightly different.”
Mr Bedford said the school’s location, next to the woods of Marshall’s Arm nature reserve, was perfect for attracting a variety of feathered visitors to the laden bird tables.
He said these included all three species of woodpecker, a hobby, nuthatches, treecreepers and a flock of waxwings.
“The children absolutely love it,” he said.
“I do get distracted if there’s a rare bird in the playground – sometimes you just have to abandon class and say ‘you’ve got to look at this!’ “It’s interesting and then the children can go home at the weekends and do it themselves in their gardens.”
