Ever caught a bird? It’s a kid’s pastime that’s not commonly seen nowadays. ygblog remembers the techniques used to catch birds back in the kampong days. I wonder how successful the traps were – and does anybody still catch birds today?
as young kampong boys, we devised very simple contraptions to catch sparrows, mynahs and other common birds that visited our backyard or frontyard. one such contraption that we used was the food cover. we would tie a long string to a thick stick which was used to prop up the food cover. to lure the birds to the trap, we would leave a trail of grains of rice around and inside the cover.
Read about catching birds here.
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