For our songbirds
02-06-2012, 12:47 PM
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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.
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02-06-2012, 01:00 PM
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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.
02-06-2012, 01:49 PM
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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.
02-06-2012, 04:03 PM
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For our songbirds
Along the lines of saving scraps to stuff dog beds: It will soon be the birds' nesting season, and when building their nests they love to use the tiny bits we trim off when squaring blocks or straightening seam allowances. Just be sure your pieces aren't too long--about an inch and a half is good. (Longer than that, baby birds can get them tangled around their legs, and that's a disaster.) If you put the scraps in the branches of shrubbery or low trees, birds will find them.
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02-07-2012, 04:29 AM
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02-07-2012, 05:33 AM
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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.
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.
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