A message from Billy!

Billy took all our advice and bought himself some new gear to help him be safe and be seen on the road!

Our iBook!

 

We did 2 pages each  our names is  Ella Carlene, Oli, Gabriel and Caitlin. It is nearly finished!

 

 

 

 

 

Collaboration at WPIT

The WPIT employees have been working incredibly hard on their iBooks and guide books, ready to send to Backwoods Bill.

There was some amazing research to find some answers to the questions that none of our experts knew.

The WPIT employees took their work very seriously! Some notes were made and shared with colleagues. 

Nocturnal animal guide books

After coming up with ideas to help Backwoods Bill while he is in England, we worked together in small teams to produce guide books for him. Some teams created ibook guides, some created paper ones. They presented their work so far to the rest of the class. Great work so far - Billy will learn loads about our wildlife!

 

Planning to help Backwoods Billy

We thought about the best ways that we could help Backwoods Billy to capture nocturnal animals on camera and how we could pass the information on to him. These were our ideas.

Passing on information

Helping Bill find the animals

Owl cam update

WPIT now have two owl cams working! We are following their progress carefully click on their names to visit the owls. We love watching them!

Brenda and Boris

Dorset owls

Of course we can't have a post with birdcams and leave out are very own Peregrine Falcons at Norwich Cathedral!

Maybe you can find out what is living in the owl box here too?

Backwoods Belinda brings another problem!

It's been so busy down at WPIT and the team are hard at work putting together ibooks and guides about British nocturnal animals for Billy. Unfortunately, the blog posts of their lovely work and team presentations are stuck in cyber space... hopefully they will upload from the ipad at some point ...

Meanwhile, this afternoon, Backwoods Belinda bought a 'gift' from the woods where she was working with Backwoods Billy. She knew they were owl pellets, but needed the WPIT team to help her find out what they showed and what kinds of things the owls had been eating. That would help them identify the kinds of creatures in the woods. The team did a marvellous job and have written some reports for Bill to help him. There were lots of animal bones and skulls to study!

Bone identification

Backwoods Belinda inspects the pellets

The contents of a pellet

Inspecting carefully

Rodent skulls!

More WPIT news coming soon!

Backwoods Billy Baxter has a BIG problem!

Backwoods Billy Baxter, a famous nature film-maker, has come all the way from Australia to find out about nocturnal animals, but has been unable to catch any on camera! So the expert volunteers at WPIT decided to give him a bit of advice. They should know, they've been watching wildlife for a long while now. They decided that they may have to make a guide book too, to show Billy what he's actually looking for. After all he's probably more used to crocs and koalas! Some of the volunteers came up with some top tips to help Billy! 

Badges

WPIT were in a bit of bother again today when someone had noticed an employee doing some work in public, without their security badges! 

Barn owl diagrams

WPIT employees have been hard at work today creating diagrams of barn owls for the website. They are labelling all the ways that barn owls have adapted, to survive. 

They are coming along nicely! Wait and see them on the WPIT website when they are finished! 

Owl training from the RSPB

A barn owl expert came in to WPIT headquarters to share her knowledge of barn owls. This was very important because the team are looking after more than one owl box and must make sure that their expertise is up to date. Lucinda also showed the team the barn owl website page from the RSPB where she works, as a member of WPIT told her that their website wasn't very good.  She gave lots of good tips about making their website stand out too! 

The owl expert from the RSPCA

After Lucinda left, the team got straight to work writing facts about barn owls for the WPIT website. After all that hard work, they deserved the weekend off!

WPIT - The Wildlife Investigation and Protection Team

WPIT 

The WPIT were in a spot of bother this week when they received a letter about their website. A lady was complaining that there wasn't enough information on it, even though she thought it was a lovely idea to have it. Oh dear!   

 So we quickly went to our website and had a look at it to see what she was complaining about. We felt very proud of how it looks when you first enter it - it really shows what we do at WPIT!  

  Whilst we were there we checked out our owl cam that Aiden and his team had installed in the owl box. Brenda and Boris are doing brilliantly and we got a good look at Baby Bard! One of the other eggs looks like it will hatch at any time! Unfortunately, when we looked at the nocturnal animals page of the WPIT website, we found out that the complaints were justified. There was no writing on there! Goodness me. What on Earth had happened. We asked the website team and found out that they hadn't been doing their job properly. Oh dear. Somebody might need to get the sack!

We found out that the website expert had an awful lot of problems last week. She had trouble with her computer and the internet and couldn't get on at work. She decided that she would have to finish the work at home, but didn't have time to do anything because she had to cook the tea and look after the baby. Oh dear! We had to make a big decision. Her colleagues thought about how she might be feeling and considered how unfair it would be to sack her when she had worked so hard. They decided that they should all help her to make it right.  The WPIT are very caring!