SHROPSHIRE Wildlife Trust has been helping Bishop's Castle Community College students work towards the John Muir Award.

This involved sharing, discovering, exploring and conserving.

Students were shown how to light fires out in the open.

They collected sticks – tinder, kindling and larger branches and then had a fire-pit and put some cotton-wool in the centre and put kindling on top.

The fire was lit this and added the larger sticks.

Students also learnt more about the diet of animals by examining owl pellets.

This is the food that the owl cannot digest, such as animal bones and fur, so they regurgitate it.

Once they had pulled the bones from the pellet the bones were organised to see what the bird had eaten.

The Community College students learned that the owls like shrews and voles. Shrews are easy to identify because they have red tips on their teeth.