birds

When I was around 5 years of age I used to believe that the birds would nest in my garden if I made their nests for them. I spent many a happy hour gathering clay pots and filling them with freshly gathered moss twigs and grass and placing them about my garden, on ground level, then darting back into the house to look out of the kitchen window to see how grateful they would be.

Avonmouth Wendy

When I asked my mom why birds hopped instead of walked she told me that their legs were too long and if they walked instead of hopped they'd walk right past where they were trying to go.

Anon

when i was little, my parents used to take me to the park and tell me that there were very pretty baby pink and yellow birds there and that if i ran after them really quickly, i could bring them home with me.

i spent countless times running from tree to tree trying to 'catch' these birds. it was only when i got older that i realized it was my parents' way of getting me to exercise cos i was a really lazy kid. come to think abt it, i never actually seen these colored birds before either.

Jean

I used to think that everytime a chicken took a crap it laid an egg. I was so nieve.

Bob.

I used to think that "mourning doves" were called afternoon doves starting at noon!

Megaroo

I use to think the pecan pie was a bird pie. That they smushed bird meat then put the bones on top. I thought that because the bird pecon.

Anon

When I was 6 (but I was innocent kid) I learned that chicks are born from eggs,that day my mum was sick so she was sleeping and my dad was at work I took my 4 years sister and started to break eggs due to sound my mum woke up and she was shocked she asked me why I broke the eggs I said what teacher told me and I told her neither of the eggs had chick and then my mum started laughing

Oh my chick

I used to believe that albatrosses were a fictional species created for the Disney movie "The Rescuers"

Anon

A belief that many people share, I'm sure - if you find a baby bird on the ground, out of its nest..."Don't pick it up!" they tell you. The mother bird will smell your scent on the baby and will refuse to care for it.

I learned in college this is not true: most birds don't have a sense of smell at all, so no mother bird will reject her baby because it smells like a human. "Officials" just don't want people picking up baby birds!

Anon

When I was little, I thought that birds feathers were made out of twigs and cat hairs.

Lily

When i was little,i used to believe that whenever i was playing outside and i heard a crow caw (or whatever you call the noise they make) it was time to go inside and stop playing,because the crow knew it was getting dark and that after dark all the monsters came out.Ever since i've always thought it was time to go inside once you heard the crow :)

Meg

I used to believe that the owl outside of my window was some sort of demon. I would not go to bed until the noise would stop. I used to wake my dad up in the middle of night to go scare it off. Even after he scared it away I would not go to bed. I would picture all these bad things that it could do, especially after watching scary movies and seeing what can be done. Events soon changed when the barn it lived in was torn down due to a fire. I then realized that it was just a bird, in a tree.

Mickey

When I was in kindergarten, I saw some birds pecking at the ground for food. I believed that the food must have been rice because birds eat rice all the time. Though digging into the ground for rice proved me wrong.

Rene

I used to think that most parrots are as articulate as the average four-year-old. The things they would say made me jump to that conclusion. I was right, depending on which parrot you're talking about- Alex the African Gray is said to have the language skills of a four-year-old or a precocious three-year-old.

Trisha Gaurav

I used to believe that if you killed a lizard or bug on accident, that it's family would come back and start making bugs and lizards everywhere turn against you. Then I learned that bugs lay their eggs and abandon their babies, as do lizards. I still never kill them though.

Lillan Clark

When I was a little boy.I used to believe dragons existed and the birds were dragons,who had not been to the dragon's school.They don't exist

juniorr99

when I was a kid. I used to believe hens had teeth.

lév michot

I used to think that there was a kind of four-legged, flesh-eating bird that looked something like a vulture mixed with a crow. I even thought that I had seen one once at the San Diego Zoo.

Anonymous

I used to believe that sprinkling pepper on a bird's tail would somehow make it passive and it'd belong to you...which stemmed from my misinterpretation of my father's comment that if you could get close enough to a bird to put pepper on its tail, you might as well catch it!

Kirryn

I used to believe that ducks grew up to be swans. I think this has to do with the fact that there is a pond near-by with ducks and swans on it. And also the tale of the "Ugly Duckling" where the duckling did actually become a swan.

Rob