MAKE A NEST HELPER

It's that time again to help the birds build their nests!

We gathered our supplies:

-horse hair from grooming the horses, 

-feathers on the ground from the ducks and hens

-mane from the horses

-angora from plucking the rabbits

-yarn that we cut into two inch lengths

-large wire suet feeder


We counted, measured, and recorded our ingredients. At a later date, we can see what has been used by the birds.


Next we layered them in the wire feeder . . . 

                      packing them loosely . . . 

and hung it outside, on a branch, for the birds.

We make these every year. See what we made last year here.
                   
                 happy day! happy nesting!


                 Linked to Barn Hop #6

FEATHER YOUR NEST

I mean help the birds feather THEIR nest.

Birds will use whatever they can find to build their nests and children (and adults!) can help supply some of those *finds* for them.

It's best to use natural materials and muted earth colors. 

 Go gathering in nature and look for leaves, twigs and dried grasses. Add bits of string, fabric, yarn, and hair. You can also add any fiber, fur, or feathers from animals .

Here's what we use:

We use a mesh onion bag and a wire suet feeder . . .

                     and STUFF them full . . .

and hang them outside near our birdfeeders so the birds will see them.

And if it gets empty you can fill it over and over  again.

It's fun to watch and see what gets used. There were only a handful of times that we actually saw a bird taking something, but each day there were less and less materials. The only things left were pieces of the horses mane and I think because we didn't cut it into shorter strips.

Let me know how it goes for YOU and what the birds left behind, if anything.