Thank you for the reminder! I used to do this every Spring, but somehow I've forgotten the last few years. I'm going to make sure to have them out there this year for my feathered friends. :)

I contribute bags of dog fluff to our local birds. The Corgis are molting right now, so there is tons of undercoat available to the birds. At our old house, the birds had very soft nests as a result of our neighbor's malamutes.

Cheers, K

Not very healthy for the baby birds. Maybe if the fabric is prewashed - our cotton fabric is loaded with unhealthy chemicals. Years ago the manufacturers used formaldyhyde as a preservative and that is a carcinogenic. don't know what awlful chemicals China is putting into the fabric nowadays.

Formaldehyde is still used to coat almost all fabrics, not just by China. It is used to prevent wrinkles and keep bugs away.

I always put out thread clippings but not fabric. I do save fabric for dog beds.

For our songbirds
 

Yarn works great too and is so colorful!

I brush Tink outside, so they get lots of extra fluff from her...plus I put the trimmed threads into one of my garden pots...they coming zooming in to get the trimmed embroidery threads.

Also, you can save the lint from your dryer and put out for them!

I always wondered about the dryer lint. I thought, surely there should be something we can do with this besides throw it away.

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS!!!!

There was an article in "Birds and Blooms" about the fabric and thread getting wet causing the baby birds to die of the cold and damp.

I don't know who thought of this but they are terribly wrong if they think it is a good idea. If you want to give the birds nesting material then use pet or human hair. I'm sure if you went to a local beauty salon or pet groomer they would let you have hair to put out for bird nests.

One fall after the leaves had fallen I saw a nest made up of gray hair, that was the neatest looking nest I had everseen.