🐦 🦆🦉🦅 ‘Birds of a FEATHER’ family prize challenge. **Running on our Facebook pages.**

💥🥇WINNER gets a GREEN & GREAT Out-tours cap (see pic)! 💥🥇

Guarantee: This challenge will engage children AND adults - we have caps for all sizes!!! A prize quiz is only as good as the number of entrants!

🥁 Drum roll for the challenge background 🥁!

September is an important month for children, it’s also a BIGGY for our wild birds too??

🐦 Did you know......? All birds moult.

What does this mean?

Moulting is a process of shedding and regrowing feathers. Adult birds shed their worn out feathers each year, following the breeding season. The youngest months old birds are losing their first feathers and moulting into their adult coats.

Feathers wear out during a bird's busy year. Flying, rubbing against neighbouring feathers or trees, general weakening due to exposure to sun, along with parasites, such as feather lice, all cause damage to feathers.

They grow new, strong, warm feathers to see them through the winter.

🦆 When do the UK’s wild birds choose to moult?

Many (but not all) birds shed their feathers in August & early September.

👂 Have you heard?

JUST NOW, in your garden, park, or on countryside walks, there AREN’T many birds singing?

Why?

Fascinating fact....the birds are just keeping a low profile while they undergo a late summer moult, shedding their tired and bedraggled feathers to replace them with strong and glossy new ones!

🧢  Put a feather in your cap?

RIGHT NOW, if you go on a 🚶🏿‍♀️👨‍🦽walk 🚶‍♂️🚶🏿‍♀️, or head out to your garden, you will very likely see feathers lying on the ground. Look closely under trees and bushes and you may well find some really special and COLOURFUL feathers, BOTH large and small!

We are going to help you place a FEATHER to a BIRD!

🧩  Our challenge to you? 

• Starting with this post, we are going to feature a photograph of a bird feather.
• ALL YOU NEED TO DO, IS TELL US WHICH FAMILIAR WILD BRITISH BIRD, the feather comes from.
• 🖐🤘🏽👆🏿 A total of 8 different & familiar bird feather pics will be posted in the coming weeks, as part of the ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’ picture challenge.
• ✍️  Lodge your answer (quoting the feather number), via a Facebook ‘comment’ or in ‘messenger’.

📋 The ground rules? See attached.

We are **running this challenge on our Facebook pages.**

Click here to begin.

Let the ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’ challenge begin!

👍🤞Good luck from all The Great Out-tours team.

 🐦 🦆🦉🦅 ‘FEATHER’ picture 1 - Which bird does this feather belong to?