They didn't have to be completely quiet as they were indoors and the birds probably wouldn't hear them. That's just as well since they are quite noisy when they are all together! Bubbles had his binoculars so that he could look closely at any birds the bears didn't instantly recognise. Scary had the bird book so that he could look them up. Teddy was in charge of marking down how many of each bird they saw at any one time. He got a little confused because he wanted to mark down however many they saw, but he was supposed to only mark down the most they saw of each type at any one time.
