"martin" wrote in message after Bob wrote:


"Annelies" wrote in message
And are they suggesting you'll have a *LAWN* in 5 days? I'd say that
was
a claim for the Trades' Descriptions Act. Under very favourable
conditions you might see the tips of some of the shoots appearing in
five days......

Provided you kindly and foremost politely ask the birds to have their
banquet somewhere else..........


Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.
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Bob

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