North Lindsey College

As we mentioned in our last post, our bird cake recipe is very simple:

Quantities will vary, depending on your needs.

Ingredients:

LARD

WILD BIRD SEED MIX

DRIED FRUIT (AS USED IN BAKING FRUIT CAKES, VERY CHEAP TO BUY)

YOU CAN ALSO ADD NUTS AND CHEESE IF AVAILABLE.

Equipment:

WOODEN SPOON

KNIFE (UNDER SUPERVISION FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN)

CHOPPING BOARD

MIXING BOWL

STRING

YOGHURT POTS

Chop the lard into cubes and mix in with seed and fruit until it binds together. Add small quantities of seed to begin, this avoids making the cakes too dry.

It’s as simple as that! Transfer to bird feeders – recycled yoghurt pots are a good idea, they can be hung up with string.

Our college is lucky to have a small patch of woodland on site.  We have worked to encourage wildlife into the woods by removing nettles and brambles which had overtaken a large area of the woodland.  Now that it has been cleared, we hope that other woodland plants can flourish.  We also made some bird boxes and put them up in the woods.  We will monitor them for use.

We’ve also made some feeding stations to put up in different areas of the college.  We used old yoghurt pots and bottles to fill with bird cakes that we make ourselves.   They look a little strange, but the birds appreciate them!

Our next project is setting up an Easter treasure hunt for the …

Read all of North Lindsey College’s Woodland Project – Mission Update!

North Lindsey College in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire joined Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible today.

You can see where North Lindsey College is on a map and read about their local environment here.