{"id":4132,"date":"2021-01-31T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2021-01-31T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:47:04","slug":"the-dig-and-rspb-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"The Dig and RSPB Count"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been interesting seeing all the fuss about the new film The Dig<\/strong> <\/span>about the fantastic discovery of the\u00a0 Sutton Hoo Ship Burial<\/strong><\/span>. I have read quite a bit about the discovery and we will take the chance to visit the site whenever we are in the Suffolk area, I always go to the Sutton Hoo<\/span> <\/strong>collection when visiting the British Museum\u00a0 even if I am there to \u00a0see a specific exhibition. The pictures below was from our last visit and there was re-enactment group running stalls on the site. I do play with the ship burial idea with some of my Story Telling although I transport my story \u00a0to Gloucestershire and our Saxon links. I\u00a0\u00a0hope to see the film at some point hopefully it will come onto mainstream T.V.<\/p>\n

This weekend is the annual RSPB<\/strong> census of garden birds\u00a0\u00a0 We have been doing it for over 20 years. The Blackcap<\/strong> obliged by appearing after being absent for a week! We also do a weekly count in our garden for the BTO.<\/p>\n

In my last few years in school we would do the RSPB School Watch<\/strong>. I would meet the children at school early morning and send them out in pairs around the site. It generated a wealth of data over the years which I used with my maths groups. Even doing % increases and decreases! When we finished our watch we would have Breakfast together! Highlights over the years included a Tawny Owl, Siskin, Sparrowhawk and a Brambling<\/strong>. A member of staff one morning commented to me that she had overhead two young people debating with each other about one bird- “I’m sure its a Parrot!” ” No I don’t think so, have a look at this picture of a Chaffinch.” “That’s it a Parrot!”<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Quiz on Crime\u00a0 <\/strong>(no quiz today it is Sunday)<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Robert Peel<\/strong> <\/span>is known as the Father of Policing\u00a0\u00a0 b) Dactyloscopy is Fingerprint Identification\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>c) Lyon<\/strong> <\/span>is Interpol HQ\u00a0 d) Great Train Robbery<\/strong> <\/span>in 1963 took place at Bridego Bridge\u00a0 e) Sweeney<\/strong><\/span> is the Cockney Rhyming Slang<\/p>\n

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