Tuesday, May 6, 2014

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

Thursday, May 1, 2014

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! 

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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!