My sister and I used to try and catch the birds that landed in our backyard all the time. At one point, we thought that if we held tree branches and stood really still, that the birds would think we were trees and land on us. We soon found out that it didn't work, though.
I also tried to catch birds by digging pitfall type traps. Although I was smart kid, it never occured back then that they could easily fly out of such traps.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- i used to set up traps to try and catch santa. i never caught him. — santa trap
- My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them. — belle
- Trees grew leaves as camouflage so birds would`nd nest in them. Don`t ask.— DaWind
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- When I was eight, I thought my dad could translate what the birds were saying. I have no idea why.Anon