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Old 01-26-2014, 08:29 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Old 01-26-2014, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Northern Illinois
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Any port in a storm!!!! How ingenious - it would just never occur to me to nail an old shoe to a tree for that purpose.
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Old 01-26-2014, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
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just stuff the toe and half way up with straw or twigs so the poor birds don't have to do it themselves.
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Old 01-27-2014, 06:19 AM
 
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That is awesome!
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Old 01-27-2014, 07:13 AM
 
Location: Swiftwater, PA
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Is that a steel toe work boot for the bird's protection?
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Old 01-27-2014, 07:31 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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What an ingenious idea!!
Worth reps ;-)
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Old 01-27-2014, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
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This isn't my picture but I did discover this bird house method by accident when I left a muddy work shoe (actually old black sneaker) on a fence post one spring and went I went back to get it there was a bird nest in it. Scared me to death.

Once I left an old straw garden hat on a shelf on the side of the shed and birds made that a nest too. Just the right size for them.

Also I have a really neat wreath I made out of different kinds and sizes of pine cones which I always keep on the front porch. Birds always find it and sometimes even black snakes slither vertically up and get to the eggs or babies. so sad.
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