That’s what I hope my birds will be soon. Since I haven’t seen a bird in any of my traps, I decided to make new ones. Funnel traps, they’re called. I got specs from Dana, but didn’t have any materials.
So, off to the hardware store. Had to have greg help with this one as I wasn’t totally sure how to go about building these things. I had Greg meet me at the hardware store. He travelled by bike, me by bus. The local hardware store is great! They had everything and had very helpful people. We also went to the grocery store to pick up sunflower seeds (a 10 lb. bag). After making our purchases, we had to somehow get them to school. Since greg had his bike, we piled the seed bag over the middle bar, and greg balanced the roll of chicken wire between the handle bars, and off we went – walking along the bike trail to school. It wasn’t actually that far, and the weather was nice today, so it wasn’t too bad. For pictures see the gallery.
The build started out with paper models (so as to not waste the precious chicken wire). And, by the end we ended up with two funnel traps complete with 4 doors each! Not bad for an afternoon’s work.
We finally left school around 7:00. I realised I had been at school for over 12 hours. Can’t complain though. Spent most of the morning blogging as I was waiting to see whether any birds would use my old traps. They didn’t. Now I get to sleep in tomorrow! Yippee!
Treated Greg to Japanese dinner for all of his help. “Treated” is funny because I haven’t gotten paid yet, and Greg actually paid my last credit card bill! Hee! Hee! Anyways, there’s a nice sushi place just down the road from the apartment! We braved the sushi combo, and it wasn’t bad. Will update tomorrow if badness kicks in tonight!