In the early part of elementary school, one of my friends taught me how to make a "bird's nest" out of a circle of small rocks with grass in the middle. Afterward, I believed that was how birds really made their nests and was convinced that if I could manage to make a perfect nest, a bird would think it had been made by another bird and lay its eggs there.
I made dozens and dozens of rock-and-grass nests on the front steps of my house, laying them out carefully and even putting a few rocks in the middle to be the "eggs," hoping to show the birds it was a good place to raise a family. I waited and watched for a long time, but I never lured any birds to my yard with those nests. Now, of course, I just use a feeder.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen
- 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
- I used to believe that craters were old dinosaur nests.— dumb one
- When I was little, I thought that birds feathers were made out of twigs and cat hairs.— Lily