this ones wierd. my sister actually believed that if you put bird seed in a cup with cotton buds and watered it, it would grow into a egg which will hatch into a bird.it probally didnt help that i kept putting an egg in the cup the next day.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen
- I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail— Eli
- until the age of 6 i didnt know bird had feet.Anon
- i used to believe if a cat ate a bird the cat would eventually GROW WINGS!— nightmare
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia
- I once for some reason thought a Mantis was a bird, instead of a bug...— Laurie J.