Birds that you’ve seen

Over the past weeks, we’ve talked about 19 different birds and in this post you’ll see pictures of each one.

Your challenge is, can you name them? There are some clues! Or can you give them new names? Let me know how you get on and I’d love to see any drawings you make 🙂

If you need help, check out the Chirpy Challenges page or find the answers at the bottom of this post.

Another bird for you, any idea what this is called?

You might see this bird near water, or inland in fields or open areas or beside the sea.

Any idea what this wee bird is?

Over these last years this wee bird has been seen more frequently in towns.

Check out its position on the tree, what d’you think it’s doing?

Look at its beak, what d’you think it eats?

Check under ‘T’ here: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/

Challenge – can you draw this one?

Time for a tale

Another wee bird

Hi folks, do you recognise this wee bird?

For some of you, it’s such a common sight, you may not have ever really looked at it’s bonny plumage.

Even its call may be so familiar to you that it’s just another everyday sound that you hardly notice 🙂

Check out its beak, what d’you think it eats?

Challenge – can you draw this one?

Time for a tale –

This story has many shapes and forms, do you recognise it?

Hi Folks 🙂

Any idea what this bird is called?

It is more commonly seen outwith cities, but, over the last years, we are seeing more and more in urban settings.

See if you can find it under ‘P’ here: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/

Challenge – can you draw this one?

This bird is a wood pigeon.

Hi abody,

Any idea what bird this is?

Check out the beak and the feet (known as talons). What do you think it eats?

Time for a tale – The Three Feathers:

Challenge – can you draw this one?This is a sparrowhawk. Continue reading →

Mornin folks, here’s another bird for you! D’you know it’s name?

Clothes and shape

Last week’s Chirpy Challenge was one ‘sky dancer’, the swift – and here’s another beautifully aerodynamic bird 🙂

Notice the red above and below its bill. This bird has deep blue on its wings and a very long forked tail.

Challenge – can you draw it?

Find out what it is on the RSPB bird identifier under ‘S’: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z

This is a swallow 🙂

Time for a Tale – this is called Thumbelina and the Swallow, adapted from the Hans Anderson story:

Continue reading →

Hallo everybody 🙂

Do you know this bird?

What d’you think it eats? Look at the length of its wings compared to its body size.

What d’you think that can tell you?

I copied this one from a book because they move sooo fast it’s hard to take a picture of one.

Challenge – can you draw one?

These birds are called swifts. Continue reading →

Mornin all 🙂

Here’s a bird you’ve seen in a previous Chirpy Challenge…what is it?

Check out the bill. How would you describe it? What do you think it might eat?

In different lights this handsome bird is not just black and white; what colours can you see?

Challenge – can you draw it?

This is the magpie. Continue reading →

Good morning abody 🙂

Here’s your challenge o the week! What’s this bird?

Have you ever heard one sing?

This bird looks black in some lights, but when the sun shines it has beautiful gleaming colours.

Check out the bill – what do you think it eats?

Challenge – can you draw it?

This is a starling. Continue reading →