My mother told me that the first sound of a morning was the birds tweeting and farting in the trees as they woke up to start the day. I was always trying to wake up early enough to hear them as I had never heard a bird fart.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them. — belle
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia
- Trees grew leaves as camouflage so birds would`nd nest in them. Don`t ask.— DaWind
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon