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Re: CHICKADEES AND CAT HAIR
- To: BIRDERS <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: CHICKADEES AND CAT HAIR
- From: Paula Jeannet Mangiafico <paula.mangiafico@duke.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:31:04 -0500
- In-reply-to: <3CA21FC8.7A4AE395@cheta.net>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I actually wondered whether or not birds would accept cat hair for
nest-building. I've put out dryer lint in a suet cage (of which a large
percentage is cat hair!), but haven't seen any takers.
Paula Mangiafico
Southern Durham, NC
--On Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:38 PM -0500 Bev Hudson
<BEVHUDSON@cheta.net> wrote:
> Hello Bird Lovers,
>
> I just have to share my delight for the day. First of all a wild female
> turkey has been frequenting our bird area again this year and she is
> absolutely beautiful in the sunlight. Last year she had 13 young!
>
> I put my Angora cat's hair in an onion mesh bag and hung it on the
> honeysuckle near the dining room window. It is so adorable to see the
> hyper chickadees pulling hair out, filling their little beaks full and
> flying to a nearby 8' stump where they have cleaned out the hole. In
> they go with a mouthfull and out they come to get more. They cleaned
> alot of chips out of the hole last week.
>
> I always put the clean cat hair out every year even into the summer and
> the hummingbirds will come and get it. We don't have a good way to take
> pictures or I could post some good ones.
>
> I'm enjoying the Spring antics of the birds and am sure you are, too.
>
> Bev Hudson
> Hendersonville, NC
>