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Murrayburn Primary 5 are off on another John Muir Award Scoot Adventure, this time - Conserve. The children have shown how responsible they can be scooting along the canal towpath and being mindful of both wildlife and the general public. The next few posts will show other ways in which they have been responsible and how they have made a difference to the space they discovered...

An element of the Conserve part of the John Muir Award is to be responsible. The children did an amazing job of showing just how responsible they can be, Listening to safety briefings, Taking the opportunity to learn more, Work in a team and respect other teams and their ideas. Being responsible with equipment. Being respectful to School Staff, Sustrans Team and Parent Helpers. Amazing Job, well done.

Another element of the Conserve part of the John Muir Award is to - Make a difference. We decided to do this by doing a litter pick. Everyone was very keen to take part, especially when the equipment they needed was brought in a very unique way.

Conserve - Litter Pick Safety briefing. ✔️ Litter Pickers. ✔️ Gloves. ✔️ Bin Bags. ✔️ Lots of enthusiasm! ✔️ Let’s MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 😃

The children were shocked at all the rubbish they found! They worked really hard with their teams to Make a Difference.

Litter Pick cont... The children were disgusted that they filled 8 bags of rubbish in the time they had! But they were glad they had made a difference and we were all very proud of them. 😀

It’s June, which means #30DaysWild and I am always grateful to it for motivating me to go out and notice more than normal. On day 1 I found a little feather on the Union canal towpath (route 75) – one half grey, one half white, with a fluffy base and a slight bend to the left. It motivated me to open my Bird Biology Handbook again and get back to where I’d stopped studying…chapter 4 ‘Feathers and Plumages’. I think my little feather is a contour feather, but what from? Maybe a gull? I’ve noticed the speculum feather patches on the local mallards too, which vary from blue to teal to lilac, depending on what angle and what light you catch them. The chapter promises to tell me more about this – about iridescence, disruptive colouration and the sad-sounding ‘structural blues’, but in the meantime it is gifting me pleasing words like ‘plumulaceous’ and ‘afterfeather’. More exploring to be done on this, I think - both outside and in.

Thankfully we were still able to come across some nicer finds..