Our Tuesday Twitchers group is brilliant, very good, worth recommending.

We have got a volunteer called Richard who is very good and he brings binoculars and we go bird watching. If we see a bird we have to be quiet and he helps us to identify it. Sometimes we see a bird of prey, but it’s mainly robins and blackbirds that we are seeing right now.

We have information sheets that show us which birds we are seeing. There’s an app called Merlin which is very good. It listens to the sound of birds and tells you what birds they are which we enjoy using.

We’ve got some bird tables that some of my friends at Flower Pod built. We all help to put bird feed on the bird tables to encourage the birds to visit us. There are cameras by the bird boxes that we can see birds from.

I used to be really frightened because I was scared of birds, but I am feeling more comfortable because Richard helps us identify them. Nature is what it is. I now feel happy when I see a bird because they’re part of our environment.

Emma

Green Citizen