Sponsored Walk for Chogoria

One more day to go before our whole school sponsored walk, raising money for our partnership with Chogoria High School, Kenya! We sponsor 4 pupils to attend the Chogoria High, and we're also raising money to support a group of pupils and staff from Currie High School to go out to visit Chogoria next summer.  The school has been decorated in pupil-designed posters for weeks now, and pupils have been hard at work getting sponsors for their walk.   We'll be dressed in the colours of the Kenyan flag and hoping for a dry day!

For a fantastic promotional video based on our last sponsored walk, check this out....

CurriEco Nest record Scheme 2013 - BTO Nest Records.

What happened to our roof-nesting Oystercatchers?

Our remaining Oystercatcher chick flew off with its parents on the first weekend of the summer break, so June 29th or 30th.  They have probably gone to the coast. In some parts of the Forth coast people call them Mussel-peckers because they see them feeding on shellfish on the rocks.

On a visit to our roof we found the shallow scrape in some moss, hardly a nest, where the eggs had originally been laid.  Since the chick was ringed there is a possibility that we will learn more about its life in the future.


A young oystercatcher. (This one is not ours though!)

The school buildings seem very quiet since they left!   Although there is a good chance the Oysterctachers have produced young here in previous years, this is the first time we are sure a chick grew to flying size!  Great!

That is the final chapter in the Nest Records story in 2013.  The remaining record cards will now be sent to the BTO. Thanks to all the Currie ecologists who took part in the monitoring and recording, and to everyone else who took an interest in our breeding birds this year!