http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTBRn5S_qE
Our friends at Promote Shetland (who kindly supported our Date With Nature at Sumburgh Head through providing the technological side of things) have posted the above footage on You Tube. It's just minutes before the lovely Kay Hall called me to tell us she'd seen the chick.
Away from puffins for a moment... Field teaching is an important strand of the work of the RSPB. We went to Mousa for a trip with Bells Brae Primary School yesterday. More than forty children joined in our Living Classrooms field teaching service, learning about our plants, seals, birds, marine life and archaelogy. Mousa is a great reserve for children to think about how the environment shapes people and how people shape the environment. I was really impressed with the school children, who were very keen to find out lots about nature, from how to identify different bees to how important Shetland is in a global context for seabirds and discussing whether living like Iron Age people would be better or worse than today (limpet lunch was not a popular concept!). With much of the RSPB's work, we can put numbers to things to quantify problems and achievements. Helping inspire children about the wonders of nature is, pure and simply, a really good thing.
Cheerio
Helen