Catherine Shaw
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can draw birds.
You can weave things.
There's binoculars out.
There's books to read.
There's nests on display.
It's just really cool.
And then we have our annual bird calling competition that week.
And it's a buzz at the nature school.
The kids know this is coming.
They are practicing hard for it.
We have a beginner level, an intermediate level and advanced.
I choose the species for beginner level.
So it might be something really easy, like a bar-shouldered dove.
And I teach the younger primary kids how to do that sound.
And they all, every year they learn a new bird and now they know how to do an eastern coal sound.
And the older students choose their own bird.
So they'll get up for the competition and say, my name's Catherine and I'm going to do the call of a noisy friar bird.
And for extra points, some of them will rip out the scientific species name as well.
It's a proper competition.