I never thought about trying to put the fur in the yard for the birds, I thought about the yarn thing but their fur isn't long enough. And now that I think about it would be pointless for me to put the fur in the yard because the only birds we get in our yard for some strange reason (namely Smudge and Winter) are robins...which I have a feeling won't be here for very much longer, not when the falcon that lives next door most of the time decides to come back to the neighbour hood then they get chased away. But before she showed up the robins used to nest in the trees outside our house.