Picking blackberries and listening to sounds in the country
Today we went on a sound safari! I had a sheet with sounds on and I had to tick them off when I heard them. I heard rustling, tweeting, buzzing, barking, trickling and crunchy leaves.
When I got back home I drew pictures of all the things I heard.
Then Mummy played me some sounds and I had to tell her what they were - I got the woodpecker, cow, sheep, bees and frog, but the crickets and cuckoo were hard!
I put an Owl sticker on my Nature Detectives poster because I was such a good listener.
We are going to do an experiment later in the week too. You have to listen to crickets and you count how many chirps they do in 15 seconds. Then you add 40 and it’s supposed to tell you the temperature in degrees. We were going to do that this morning, but the crickets weren’t singing. I will need to take a timer and thermometer with me to see if it works.
We also had a nice surprise from Mother Nature when we were out. She gave us some more blackberries. I’m going to find some apples in the garden and make a blackberry and apple pie for lunch.
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That sounds an amazing safari, Verona!
I was interested to hear that you found it difficult to identify the cuckoo. When I was a child we heard cuckoos a lot and always waited in April to see who would be the first to hear his call. He was the Herald of Spring. I wonder if now there are fewer cuckoos about. Could this be due to a change in environment? I don’t know.
I have never heard the information about the speed of the crickets’ sound and the temperature. That sounds fascinating - I look forward to hearing your results.
Hi Grandma, well even Mummy agreed that the sounds she played me weren’t very good. Some of them didn’t sound real, like they were computer noises.
We tried the crickets on a warm day and they said it was 43 degrees, but it was more like 60! Maybe they were tired or shy.