Hi Dona,
A few years ago in the wild bird section of Agway (I think), I saw
a mesh bag filled with short colored roving being sold as a great
thing for nesting birds. It was expensive for what it was - like $5 -
but I got one for my mom for Christmas anyway. Lo and behold, she got
one for me!
Both NJ and CT birds turned their noses up at it. I thought maybe it
was the nasty roving. So I created another with a mesh onion bag and
undyed raw angora/wool/llama fibers. I tried moving it to different
places and poking the fiber through. But in the end, I don't think
a single bird took any. :-(
Beth
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:42:10 -0800
From: Do=?ISO-8859-1?B?8Q==?=a Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unexpected inspiration to get me spinning again
I discovered a moth infestation in a basket of yarn recently...some got
bagged and frozen, some bagged and set outside in the sun. Yesterday I
washed all the skeins and rinsed with lavender-scented water, hopefully to
prevent another infestation. These moths have good taste: They ate through
the alpaca and angora yarns, but left most of the rest of it alone.
Now that I've sorted the salvageable yarn from the eaten yarn, I'd like to
offer the short bits of alpaca up for the nesting birds in the area, but I'm
not sure what the safest way is to do that. I don't want to leave long bits
out that will cause injury to the birds. Does anyone have any ideas about
how to do that? Maybe a net bag with the ends of the yarn poking through?
Dona
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