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Many species of birds like to nest
together, and you can buy various types
of
boxes that facilitate this type of
communal
living.
10 Sparrows That Live In The Moon is a
spherical nesting box that looks like the
moon, with all of the detailed craters
actually being entrance holes to
the
individual compartments inside.
You just hang it up somewhere suitable
and watch as the busy little birds fly in
and
out of the moon.
Delux version glows gently in the dark,
with an internal light that mimics the
lunar phases.
clangers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clangers
[po, Mar 26 2007]
Clanging with the Clangers
http://wagster.multiply.com/music/item/10
Totally shameless self-promotion, but no one else is going to do it. [wagster, Mar 27 2007]
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and I thought you'd finally lost it. |
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No, you gotta say it like Obi Wan: That's no moon, it's a birdhouse... |
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And can there be one that looks like a
really ginormous wasps nest, to scare the
neighbours? |
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//Delux version glows gently in the dark, with an internal light that mimics the lunar phases.// Ideal bat box [+] |
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With the special edition "Saturn" bird box, the sparrows could perch on the rotating rings ( - just ignore for the moment the incongruity of there being holes in the 'surface' of something which is supposed to be a gas giant).
Other options - simply because these are vaguely planet-like objects which already have holes in - are the Clangers' planet, and the Death Star. |
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Care must be taken to ensure the absence of parasitic Luna ticks. |
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This would resemble the moon more and more closely as it becomes covered with bird droppings. |
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"It used to be believed that the moon was made of cheese. Now, of course, we know that it's actually suet." |
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[hippo] the wonderful Clangers were
very much in mind - but surely
unknown to those outside UK ? |
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I know nothing of Clangers. |
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Shocking! You'll be saying that you've never heard of the Soup Dragon next.
Splendid idea xenzag. + |
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I have a cookbook written by Crescent Dragonwagon. Is that close enough? |
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<swanny-whistle> oooo-aaaa-ooo-ooo-oooo </sw> |
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Birds tend to poop a lot. Perhaps this moon thing would have to be made out of a cheap throw away material. [+] |
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I wouldn't mind living there myself. |
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"The Only Jenny Wren in the Universe," for the more territorial birds. |
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wonderful - both moon and wasp nest. The moon as described would lend itself to swallows or purple martins that like living all packed together. Or one could do a many-nested Jupiter, with various smaller single and double nested moonlets in orbit. |
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You could hang a little wind chime under it with the clangers resembling little aliens...then the Bird house would be a "Men and the Moon Bird House" |
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This is the prettiest idea I have come across in a long time. + |
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Galbinus, I just wanted to tell you that Crescent Dragonwagon and my grandmother were good friends until she died (my grandmother.) My grammy wrote a cookbook too, actually, but I don't know that it's as well known. Her name is Sylvia Teague if you ever happen across it. |
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