Young birds of a feather team up to offer helping hand to their winged friends
Members of the Wimbledon Common Nature Club met on Sunday for a session that was all about making bird feeders.
The children discussed the importance of helping birds in the colder months to feed and what they like to eat when insects are in short supply.
Then they went out on the nature trail to find lots of twigs to insert in their bird feeders before returning to the Information Centre on the Common to make their feeders from fir cones and recycled materials such as juice cartons, yoghurt pots, plastic bottles and milk containers.
The children then mixed up in bowls wild bird seed which contained sunflower hearts, seeds, millet, maize and peanuts, which garden birds love.
Club leader Auriel Glanville, said: “We had a great morning making bird feeders to help our feathered friends survive at a difficult time of year for them, which the children so loved doing and looked forward to hanging them up in their gardens and putting on windowsills.”
The club’s next session will be on Sunday, April 6, when ‘Egg Hunt’ will be the appropriate Easter theme – with a chance to identify eggs, paint your own and make a nest.
Meet at the Information Centre from 10am to noon (newcomers 9.45am to register). It is aimed at 6-14-year-olds and is free, though donations are always welcome.
The club is looking for volunteers, so please get in contact if you are interested. You can phone 07837 910072, email: auriel.glanville@btinternet.
Pictured top: Five-year-old Emily Warwick mixing up a bowl of bird food (Picture: Auriel Glanville)