Now, for everyone’s favorite part: stuff your produce bag full with anything that you’d think the birds might like.
You may notice in these photos that there are a few unlikely items in our own nesting materials bags. We’re homeschoolers, and this is a science project for my girls, and this is, apparently, when they’re going to learn that birds tend to not make their nests out of large pieces of paper or plastic drinking straws.
The rubber bands, however? I think that those stand a fighting chance of being chosen.
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This is a great idea, but I’ve read that birds can get their beaks caught in mesh like this. The community farm near to where I live puts out bundles of nesting materials that are just tied together, obviously this means you canot use the smallest pieces of material, but it does work!
Great concept, but I cringed when I saw you are using plastic netting. I could see birds or other small animals getting caught in these – we were taught to cut up anything with stretchy plastic rings or netting so animals wouldn’t get injured by them. It also seems a little odd to suggest putting plastic into the environment & not try to reuse it yourself or recycle it at a center. This idea could still be done with bits of things that can pull apart and are more earth friendly.
Wow! This is fantastic! I’d love to do an entire featured post on you and your blog! If you are interested you can find out how to do so here:
http://www.mydeliciousambiguity.com/2011/03/want-to-be-featured-on-my-delicious.html
I’d love for you to link up some of your other great ideas to my Tot Tuesday linky party. Have a great day!
This is all great stuff. I think the mesh bags are fine to use. We use them in the UK for lots of different bird foods and never had a problem with birds getting trapped before. Plus recycling these mesh bags is a good idea (we cant recycle here).
thank you for the ideas and inspiration!