Biodiversity at Scapa

We went to Scapa today to see what we could find there. We have been investigating the biodiversity - the variety of life - of our coast.

The weather was better than we expected - although the wind blowing the sand meant we got sand in our hair!

We looked for things of different sizes and colours.

Sometimes looking very closely at small things was the best way to see the variety of colours on the beach.

We enjoyed a snack break in the sun (even though the weather forecast said we should be getting sleet).

We were 'Nature Detectives' and marked what we found in our record books.

Mrs Whitworth from the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) taught us a game about food chains. It was fun!

  

P4 did a mini 'Bag the Bruck'.  

How many marine animals do you think might have been killed by this bruck? 

We collected about 70 pieces of bruck - mostly plastic and rope - and a CD! We were quite surprised there was so much as the main ECO Orkney Bag the Bruck was last weekend so the beach was cleaned then.

We had a great morning out - and in the afternoon we spend time investigating and recording what we had found. We had found evidence of around 23 types of life at Scapa including birds, shells, seaweed and crabs.

We are going to be making powerpoint presentations about the biodiversity we find at the coast and we will put them on the blog so that everyone can learn about it.