A trip to the Owl Mountains Landscape Park

In October 2013 in Poland we had wonderful weather - ideal for climbing our nearest mountains. That's why we went on a trip to Wielka Sowa (Great Owl) the highest peak in our Owl Mountains and it's also situated in the Owl Moutains Landscape Park. Wiktoria made a film to let you see what we saw on our trip.

Quiz about wild animals

Below you can see a film with 25 photos of wild animals. All the photos were taken by Polish students and they show wild animals which live in Poland. The task for students is to find out what are the names of the animals. Write the answers on a paper and give your teacher. Good luck! Wild animals in Poland on PhotoPeach

2nd videomeeting

On 18th November 2013 after many attempts Greek and Polish students met on Skype. They wanted to disccuss about their pets. Polish students saw Greek students' drawings and heard their aminals descriptions in English.

Swallows - House Martin

In Poland all kinds of swallows are endangered and are now protected. In Dzierżoniów we have house martins and we watched them make the nest and then how they take care of their babies. We made a film showing the life of house martins.

Narew National Park

Narew is a river in north-east Poland in a very flat area. In 1996 they founded Narew National Park, where you can see amazing views, plants and animals. And the presentation about Narew National Park by Wiktoria.

Stolowe Mountains National Park

Stołowe Mountains National Park is one of the Park in the Sudetes - the oldest mountains in Europe. Stołowe (Table) Mountains are quite near our town Dzierżoniów. Wiktoria made a presentation about this Stołowe Mountains National Park.

Best photos of nature taken by Polish students

At last we have finished our internal photo competition of nature. Many students took par in it and it was very difficult to choose the best ones. The swallowtail caterpillar is just amazing. The sand lizard without a tail and mountainous lake in Tatras are very impressive as well.

Syrian woodpecker in Poland

On holiday we were lucky and we saw Syrian Woodpecker in Dzierżoniów. They are very rare birds in Poland and we found out they don't live in our region, but one visited us. Do you see Syrian woodpeckers in Greece and Bulgaria? As we read they live in the Balcan Peninsula.

Click here to see our film with Syrian woodpecker in Dzierżoniów.

Tatra National Park

In the Tatras we have a beautiful nature and there's a national park on this area. Wiktoria and Mela show you the beauty of Tatra National Park.

Presentation by Wiktoria
Mela visited the Tatra national Park with her family and took photos of nature:

EDELWEISS

Edelweiss is a well-known mountain flower. The plant prefers rocky places at about 1800–3000 m altitude. Leaves and flowers are covered with white hairs and appear woolly. The dense hair appears to be an adaptation to high altitudes, protecting the plant from cold, aridity and ultraviolet radiation. As a scarce short-lived flower found in remote mountain areas, the plant has been used as a symbol for alpinism. The flowers bloom between July and September. Cveti 3v

TULIPA URUMOFFI

Tulipa Urumoffii This wild tulip counts among the most notable Bulgarian endemics. It occurs rather localized in Northeastern Bulgaria, Eastern Stara Planina Mountain, Znepole Region, Sofia Region and Tundzha Hilly Country. The flowering is in April and May. The plant is strictly protected by the law and included in the Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. The plant is named after Ivan Urumov, one of the first Bulgarian botanists with great contribution to the development of botany in this country. http://plantwatching.com/tulipa-urumoffii/ http://e-ecodb.bas.bg/rdb/en/vol1/Tulurumo.html#map GERGANA 3v

WHITE LOTUS

Nymphaea alba, also known as the European White Waterlily, White Lotus, or Nenuphar, is an aquatic plant. It grows in water from 30-150 centimeters deep and likes large ponds and lakes. The leaves can be up to thirty centimeters in diameter and they take up a spread of 150 centimeters per plant. The flowers are white and they have many small stamens inside. It is protected and increasingly rare plant. Бялата водна лилия е от семейство Водни рози. Тя е водно растение, обитаващо спокойни водоеми с дълбочина от 30 до 150 cm. Листата и достигат 30 cm в диаметър и могат да се разпрострат в радиус от 75 cm по повърхността на водата. Едно от най-красивите водни цветя. У нас тя е защитено и все по-рядко срещащо се растение.

Sylviya 4b and VIKI 3g

The ten most significant landmarks in Bulgaria by Dessy 11 years old

The Ten Most Significant Landmarks in Bulgaria En

Desette Prirodni Zabelejitelnosti DESSY

Spring in Poland by Wiktoria

Wiktoria took a lot of photos, including animals! And made a film presenting nature of Poland in spring.

LYNX BY DESSY

The lynxes dessy en from Rositsa Dimova

The lynxes dessy bg from Rositsa Dimova

ALPINE TRITON POSTER

Alpine Triton is three tons retail SALAMANDER. Length reached 9 cm in males and 12 cm for females.

During the breeding season in Spring, males have blue staining back side with black and white dots, and the abdomen have a blue stripe. They have small comb back is colored in yellow and black. Females are gray brown with green spots, to hide in the water. Belly and both sexes is bright orange. After the breeding season, adult specimens become darker, almost black color, designed to disguise the land.

In Bulgaria Alpine Triton found in isolated groups in the Balkan Mountains (Petrokhan) Osogovska, Rila (Seven Rila Lakes), Rhodope Montain (Smolyan Lakes) and Average forest.

Alpine Triton prefers dense deciduous forests with an abundance of water in the hilly  and mountainous areas. Hardly lives outside woods. Alpine Triton  lives near mountain lakes and wetlands. In breeding season live more often in the water and the rest the year mainly on land. There he lies beneath dry leaves, decaying trees and stumps.

After waking up from hibernation moved to water in preparation for spawning.

It feeds on small invertebrate. The female lays 100-200 eggs.

Made by Gabriel Nikolov

Storks in Bulgaria

 

Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.

The storks occur in many regions of the world  and that those groups use to eat fish. The storks have no syrinx and are mute. The bill clattering is an important mode of stork communication at the nest.

Many species are migratory. Most storks eat frogs, fish, insects, earthworms, small birds and small mammals.

There are 19 living species of storks in six genera.

Their nests are often very large and may be used for many years. Some nests have been known to grow to over 2 m in diameter and about 3 m  in depth.

For you – Nature detectives 3^rd grade

Щъркелите  са големи, дългокраки, с дълги и здрави клюнове блатни птици.

Щъркелите се появят в много региони на света и се хранят с риба. Щъркелите нямат трахея и са напълно безгласни. Тракането е важен начин за комуникация в гнездата.

Има 19 живи вида щъркели в шест рода. Много от видовете са мигриращи.

Повечето щъркели ядат жаби, риби, насекоми, земни червеи, малки птици и дребни бозайници.

Техните гнезда са често много големи и могат да се използват в продължение на много години. Някои гнезда нарастват до над 2 м в диаметър и около 3 м дълбочина.

За вас – природолябителите от 3 клас

Spring in Poland

Agata took photos of spring in Poland, made a film with "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi:

Blackbird

Krzysiek was lucky and recorded the blackbird singing on a sunny day. Do you know this lovely birs?

Boreal owl

Our town Dzierżoniów is situated near the Owl Mountains, so we had to write about owls as unfortunately there are less and less owls in Poland, even in the Owl Mountains. Asia studied one of the smallest owl - Boreal owl. Boreal Owl breeds in dense coniferous forests across northern North America and Eurasia, and in mountain ranges such as the Alps and the Rockies. It lays 3-6 eggs in a tree hole. Across much of Europe, and to a lesser extent in Asia and North America, naturalists and biologists put up nest boxes for these and other small owls. This smallish owl ( it’s about 24-26 cm long and about 90-200 g heavy) eats mainly voles and other mammals but also birds as well as insects and other invertebrates. It is largely nocturnal, though in the northern most parts of its range, it is forced to hunt during daylight because of the very short nights in summer. Boreal Owls live up to 16 years. In Central Europe there are about 5-6 thousand boreal owls pairs, in Poland - about 8 hundred pairs.

The Earth Day celebrations at Polish school

Polish students took part in Earth Day celebrations. They were taught a lot about ecology and they promoted healthy lifestyle, ecological products and they found out what to do with organic waste in the kitchen. The school play showed us what we should do to help our planet to survive for another generations. Do you celebrate the Earth Day at your schools?

And the presentation with more photos HERE

When we talk about the wonders of our Bulgarian nature, we must not overlook the karst formations. My colleague, English teacher - Reni Valkova, along with his students explore the karst field near the town of Zemen, made ​​a film about him and participated in a competition of UNESCO. The film was awarded first prize in the category for 2012. The interest of students and continues today. Reni Valkova hosted an open lesson in English based on topic  karst  . In the lesson is used ENVISION - system that is innovative Bulgarian educational product.

Hedgehog

These days you have to be lucky to see hedgehog in Poland, unfortunately. Tens years ago there really were lots of hedgehogs here. Olek studied this spieces:

Nestos River

Squirrels

In Poland we can meet some species of squirrels. Anastazja and Julia wrote about squirrels and Agata took a photo of this animal.

We work with NGOs. One such meeting introduced us to the marsh as habitat. Actually it turned out that the marshes are the perfect place for the life of thousands of species ... This tutorial shows us how important it is to protect the marsh-lands, because they help the natural purification of nature ...

 

http://www.slideserve.com/Faraday/dragoman-marsh

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Isyjmd58IU

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfKbZH8TYFY

NATIONAL PARKS IN BULGARIA

NACIONALNI PARKOVE V BG

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NACIONALNI PARKOVE V BG

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STORKS IN BULGARIA

Who doesn't know the stork? Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. Most storks eat frogs, fish, insects, earthworms, small birds and small mammals. Their nests are often very large and may be used for many years. Distribution in Bulgaria So far in Bulgaria are performed three official censuses as follows 1979/84, 1994/9, and the last held in 2004 - In 2005 it counted 4,818 pairs are District Sofia-city 1979/84 - 147 storks 1994/95 - 85 storks 2004/05 - 101 storks

Wildlife

WWF Arctouros

LYNX in BULGARIA

Lynx LiliyaEN by Rositsa Dimova

рисовете Liliya2 by Rositsa Dimova

Calendar the Nature Protection

Bulgarian pupils have own project callendar:

 Day of water March 22
 International Bird Day on April 1
 World Day for nature protection on April 5
 Earth Day April 22

Winter in spring in Poland

We would like to find the signs of spring and Bulgarian students did, but in Poland we still have winter with snow and freeze. We took some photos of wild birds, which also are waiting for sun and warmth. We feed tchem at school and at our homes to let them survive.

Winter in spring in Poland from Anna Szczepaniak

The Greek Students made a book - story for the turtle Caretta Caretta

The front page.....

Part 2 Student's work - Brown bear, Wolf, Jackal

The brown bear in Greece

Brown bear, Wolf, Caretta Caretta - student's work