For the Birds

When I was a little girl I would watch the songbirds that alighted on the birdfeeder deep in the woods of my Hudson Valley, NY home. I learned their names, counted them for the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, and even learned to identify individuals (birds look less alike than you’d think).

These pretty hand-painted songbird lockets from Tryst by Kerry are a reminder that our colorful feathered friends share our environment too.

Songbird populations are in decline due to loss of habitat (so support open-space initiatives in your community) and pollution (a culprit–bits of plastic that end up in their stomachs, so buy glass or use paper instead).

The lockets are made from repurposed vintage pieces, so no new destructive gold or silver mining went on to create them. Choose from a Cardinal, a Robin or a Blue Jay, or a silhouette of a flying swallow. The little lockets are so inexpensive you could easily buy two or three to wear together—your own little birdie menagerie.

[Originally written by Starre for Elle.com]

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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One Comment on “For the Birds”

Stephanie Rogers

Gorgeous! I’m a sucker for birds, myself. One of my hobbies is jewelry making and I have tons of things with sparrows in them, just love the imagery.

05/03/08 » 9:27 am »