On 8/1/2014 8:39 AM, Davej wrote:
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:44:39 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 7/31/2014 12:09 PM, Davej wrote:
On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:29:46 AM UTC-5, Davej wrote:
I put a bowl of water out there in the garden. Will that help?

So far it has not helped, so I am picking tomatoes when
they are pink and letting them ripen on the windowsill.


Original post unclear.

Do you want birds in your tomatoes?
If so, putting something there to attract them will just bring more in.

My question was whether they were pecking the tomato for the moisture because they were too lazy to fly up to the normal birdwater location.


I'm not a bird expert and have never seen them pecking my tomatoes and
there is no water source within several hundred yards.

Once I had a problem with Japanese beetles on my grape vines and hung a
trap on the vines. Damage was worse as more beetles were attracted in.

If birds are a problem you don't want to attract more of them so put the
water source far away. I suspect birds are not your problem unless you
have seen them doing it.