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Bird Lore

The wild birds commonly found in this district are the robil, the thrush, the rook, the magpie, the sparrow, the black bird, the snipe, the wren, the yellow hammer, the hawk, the gold finch, the lark, the wag tail, the jackdaw, and the tomtit.  The robin, the wren, the wag tail and the sparrow build their nests in ditches.  The black bird, the thrush, rush the tomtit, and the gold finch build their nests in furze.

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The rook, the hawk, magpie build nests high in trees.  The black bird the thrush, and the sparrow makes a nest of moss like a bowl.  The wren's nest is like a ball made of moss and hair.  There is a hole in one side of it.  She lays up to twenty eggs about the size of a small marble.  The eggs are white.  The black bird, the thrush and the robin lay five eggs.  The black bird's and the thrushe's eggs are blue.  They are smaller than the rook's eggs.  The colour of robin's

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eggs are white with brown spots on them.  
The gold finch, the wag tail, and the tomtit build their nests much like the robin.  They lay about five eggs.  The colour of the is white with black dots on them.  The rook, and the magpie build their nests of stick and wool.  The rook lays about three eggs.  The eggs are blue with black dots on them.  The colour of the magpie's eggs is white.  The jackdaw builds his nest in a chimney.  She lays about four eggs.  Boys are told that if they rob a swallow's

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nest the cows will yield blood instead of milk

James Nolan
Ballyconran