Yardbirds - Artist Rich Kolb and his father created the first Yardbird nearly 10 years ago in Jamestown, KY. The first yardbird came while tinkering with scrap materials. Today yardbirds are still hand crafted in KY by a group of artisans. Yardbirds uses recycled materials: scrap and rejected garden tools, farm machinery, bicycle and auto parts. Buying a yardbird creation reduces solid waste destined for a landfill, and they estimate that so far they have reused over 2 million pounds of scrap. Each animal has its own personality. No two birds are exactly alike. 

"The things that make us happiest in life when we obtain them are not always the necessities of life, but usually the things that we do not need make us the happiest."