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Post by Sam on May 1, 2017 5:27:47 GMT -5
I made this string basket from an old vegetable plant flat but most anything will do to put bits of string and hair in. The birds love the handy addition to there nest building materials. This is a great project for parents to do with their children. The children can help make the basket, then help amass the materials, then get to watch as the birds come, make there selections and fly off to add their prize to their nest. This little Yellow Throat Warbler has been very busy. I put a tuft of Gracie's hair in a clothes pin and pinned it to the side of the basket. This little rascal LOVES it. It made many, many trips to the basket yesterday. I brushed Gracie THREE times for more hair. Here's a female Baltimore Oriole that lit down in the basket and was picking at the string. The male lit in beside her then took off and she followed immediately, the string forgotten for other pursuits I guess. She later came back and I managed to get a shot but I think the camera's shutter frightened her off. She'll be back. Orioles are weavers building intricate hanging nests woven from string, grass and such. They were one bird I particularly had in mind when I made the string basket.
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Post by mic on May 1, 2017 7:55:50 GMT -5
Nice set Sam and good to see birds we don`t have.
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Post by les on May 1, 2017 11:43:30 GMT -5
That's a good idea. I came back from taking Benji out and a blackbird was collecting cuttings from my garden path. Great set Sam
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Post by Jim Fawcett on May 2, 2017 3:40:41 GMT -5
Good ole Yankee ingenuity. Good thinking, Sam.
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Post by Sam on May 2, 2017 5:14:58 GMT -5
Thanks Les, Mic and Jim. Once I get some 'regulars' I'm going to have a bit of fun. I'm going to tie one of the strings to the basket, sit back and watch.
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Post by les on May 3, 2017 1:39:40 GMT -5
Thanks Les, Mic and Jim. Once I get some 'regulars' I'm going to have a bit of fun. I'm going to tie one of the strings to the basket, sit back and watch. that reminds me of when I first started work a mate who had been in the Navy said that they would tie 2 fishes one each end of a piece of string and throw both fish up for the sea gulls and what happen would ,stop in mid flight.
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Post by Sam on May 3, 2017 4:13:11 GMT -5
It was so windy yesterday that it blew a little yellow throat out of the basket, then the basket itself blew down. I'll put it back up when the wind calms down.
Bet those sea gulls were surprised!
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