Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany

Author:Carrie Tiffany [Tiffany, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical
ISBN: 9781742610764
Google: eAl8RxSVEPgC
Amazon: B00843OODO
Goodreads: 13244390
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2012-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

At school number 2502, Cohuna, Little Hazel’s teacher sets aside fifteen minutes on a Friday afternoon for the class to write up their nature diaries. There is a prize at the end of the year for the best diary, with marks awarded for composition and illustration. The boys are doing a comic strip – Eagle Versus the World. Out of all of the boys only one of them can draw. Little Hazel brings pressed leaves and flowers from home and traces around them on the page, but they break apart and it takes too long to colour in the outlines, so she writes. She takes some advice from Harry and she tries to write what she sees.

HAZEL REYNOLDS’

NATURE DIARY

February

When we came back to school we moved into the top classroom. There is a bird table outside the window. We take turns filling up the dishes with water and birdseed. Already there have been rosellas a butcher bird and a thrush.

It was a very hot day to-day. There were 17 magpies on the grass outside the window. At lunchtime our teacher put the sprinkler on and in the afternoon there were 63 magpies on the grass. It looked like they were having a conference.

The thrush comes to the bird table all of the time. Our teacher can get very close to it and we watch from the window not making the smallest noise to frighten it away.

We saw the thrush on the bird table so much because there are actually two of them. There is a baby thrush and a mother thrush. The baby thrush will take a worm from our teachers hand.

March

To-day there were many crimson rosellas at the bird table. Our teacher calls them red lories. They have strong beaks and are a great bane of life for our fruit growers. All of the birds are happy when there are rosy tips in the sky.

Yesterday mother thrush hopped through the window. She flew around the classroom. The boys stood on the desks and took the model of the solar system down in case she got tangled in it. She hopped on the teacher’s table and she gave her a worm.

April

A kind lady said she would do the bird seed over the easter holidays. There are no birds at the bird table now that we are back. Our teacher said they will thicken up soon.

Some girls playing on the swing found a little budgie with blue feathers. Its beak has grown into a hook. It has escaped from a cage. The girls are allowed to keep it in their classroom until someone comes to get it.

Our teacher can get the mother thrush to come in the window when she whistles. She hops on the backs of our chairs. She tried to eat some spaghetti on Shirley Timms collage but it had gone dry.

May

This afternoon mother thrush sat on my hand. I have a tiny scratch mark like from a twig.

Mother thrush came into the classroom four times to-day. She got a worm each time.

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