For The Birds

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A heart shaped cactus pic from Tracy. It sort of looks like the hair on my head now.

When I was a kid my dad got me interested in birds. And one of the things we did besides having bird baths and feeders and houses was to set out materials for nest building in the spring. The whole year’s worth of little scraps of fibers went into this supply. Little bits of thread, yarn, feathers and
string were collected to be set out.

So I am doing it again this Spring inspired by the major amount of hair that is falling off my head. What a better use than to let the birds see what they can do with it. Plus My Rebecca has piles of little scraps from her fiber projects to add.

Back to my childhood, we would later have great fun inspecting old nests and seeing how our materials were used. Even from a distance you could see a bright colored thread on a high nest. It fostered a great connection between all of us. So, now could I duplicate this fun?

Right now I have a old high school buddy here visiting. We will be off on a tour of the grounds here in a moment. Hope everything is going well with you.

Oh, I just got word that a friend in Iowa has not been able to connect to the Caminoheads website with three different browsers. Can you check from where you are to see if you can connect to www.caminoheads.com ? Thanks.

Later,love, Felipe.

14 thoughts on “For The Birds”

  1. I’m reading you loud and clear my friend. I love the bird connection. Have you read Anne LaMott’s _Bird By Bird_? If you haven’t read some of her other books I think you might enjoy them. Missing you! Sending you so much love.

    1. Esther ~ I know Bird by Bird, Rebecca read it and she read me parts. I’ll put it on my list. Miss you too. Glad you are getting Caminoheads on the web. Felipe.x

  4. Just returned home after a beautiful 5 hour walk at a local park.
    Love your idea of hair recycling. Many young birds will thank you this Spring.
    Receiving you loud and clear via Firefox.
    This message comes from your ( as yet unofficial ) Canadian Bureau Chief. 🙂 🙂

    1. Yes William, I think that you would make a terrific Canadian Bureau Chief. Proud to have you on our staff! For the birds, Felipe.

  5. Hola Felipe!

    There’s a whole house full of bird lovers here, aptly lead by the chief bird watcher, Cathy. That seems like a great project to put the little ones on over the winter, the nest building materials thing, that is. Lord knows we have enough of those items to be found, between Cathy’s full-house-width sewing room and Brenna’s full-shop-width quilting room, we can outfit an entire housing project of robins, wrens, sparrows, starlings, blue birds ad infininituum! Great idea!

    Anything I can do to help your Iowa friend get connected to your blogsite, just let me know.

    SF,
    PFJ

    1. PFJ ~ glad you like the bird project. I can see all the grandkiddies getting into it. And do you like the idea of being North American Heartland Bureau Chief? You have to tackle problems like local communications glitches. Will send you Kathy’s email address, the Caminoheads with the connection problem. She is in DBQ and you may have met her in our weekend there. Thanks for your friendship, Felipe.

  6. South American Affairs Bureau Chief on an extra official trip in Canada reporting with no problems!!

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