Any wild bird enthusiasts here?
Something I’ve done for years. All winter save from lint trap of dryer. In spring during nesting season put it in a suet cage. I also save the cotton from vitamin bottles
No washer n dryer at sons place so I stopped and picked up some at laundromat. I called ahead Sat n they saved it for me. The bag they gave me for one day was triple that I had saved prior winters.
Sat I also put out in suet holder all the cotton I had saved. It was gone next day
Birds are SO industrious!
I have a collection of ‘fallen’ nests (I would NEVER disturb one!) and have Wren nests that have my (now deceased) Black Lab’s (Cinder) fur woven in.
I have found nests here at ‘the new farm’ that have hair and mane hair from our mule, Ithaca, woven in, and I have a number of nests that have orange baler twine woven in.
I’m waiting for an Oriole nest to fall from our big Maple in the house yard. That one has a LOT of baler twine in it and some things I can’t identify until I have it in my hands.
Nature Always Wins - no matter what we throw at her. :)