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.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that birds feathers were made out of twigs and cat hairs.— Lily
- When I was 5, I thought cats were spawned from moss, since moss was so soft. Made sense to me.Anon
- There was a custard well in my back gardenAnon
- Trees grew leaves as camouflage so birds would`nd nest in them. Don`t ask.— DaWind
- I used to believe that clay pigeons were pigeon-shaped clay figures.Anon
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie