Sweet Homes for Birds

We are now in Miami. All of us have been preparing for the long trip and we are almost done. I think we will be leaving early Thursday morning heading to our first camp, the Ocala National Forest.

I am taking advantage of the high-speed internet we have at the apartment to complete a few posts I left unfinished.

Now that we are in back in urban life, I realize how much I miss to awaken every morning to the chorus of birdsong. We constantly have so many birds in the jungle surrounding our house due to the warm climate.  I always have wool left over after doing crafts and the children hang it in the trees for the birds.  The other day we were delighted to see a little bird take some wool and neatly wove it to it's nest for it's little nestling.

It looked so soft and cosy.

We've collected many gourds throughout the year from our scraggly little gourd tree. Most of them that had fallen to the ground and were dry.  We decided to make some little bird houses.

The children carefully drilled holes in the top of the gourd to attach the string and hang it from the tree. They put a small hole in the bottom in case it rains so the water could seep through and not wet the chicks.