Vocabulary

habitats, ledge, cobwebs, trapdoor, moss, canopy, hollow, camouflage,

Habitats video transcript

I'm going for a walk outside.

I'm looking out for different habitats, or homes for animals.

These ducks are going for a swim on Buffalo creek.

I wonder what else I can focus on through my viewing tube.

This rock ledge has heaps of cobwebs.

Ah! Some lizard footprints on the sand.

What's this under the moss? A trapdoor house for a spider.

This is a creek where fish and turtles live.

Here's a hollow in a tree trunk - a great home for possums, sugar gliders or lorikeets.

Ground covers like grass and ferns are great habitat for reptiles.

Here's a log with a hiding spot.

Tall trees provide the tree canopy . Birds can build their nests high in the branches.

Trees need to be really old to have hollows, so we've put these nesting boxes here to provide extra homes.

Here's a new habitat we're building for frogs.

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My backyard bugs video transcript

Here we are outside in the garden.

I can see a butterfly on the purple flowers.

It's yellow and black.

It's going around from flower to flower.

Looking for nectar.

Here it goes onto another flower, flapping its wings.

Aha! What can I see camouflaged here against the green leaves.

It's got a yellow belly.

It's made a web.

It's a spider, a St Andrew's cross spider.

I wonder what else we can find amongst these purple flowers.

Here's a busy insect. Its a bee, a honey bee.

Collecting the pollen which they make into bee bread to feed their babies, and nectar to make into honey for food.

Here's a different kind of bee, buzzing from flower to flower

buzz, buzz, buzz.

It's got some bright blue and black stripes across its back.

It's called a Blue banded bee.

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