[Nfb-krafters-korner] gords

[Courtney Fulghum Smith]

>
> My grandfather would use dried gourds as bird houses for martins. I
> remember watching him drill small holes in the back of the gourds & cutting
> a hole in the front for the birds to fly into & make their nests.  He put
> the prepared gourds on a tall pole & the pole was outside my bedroom
> window. The martins would come & then the black birds. The end result was
> me being jolted awake by the boom of a shotgun blast very early in the
> morning! Not a fun way for a teenager to wake up. Those black birds never
> did learn.


Courtney