"Janet wrote in message

I seem to be missing your post, Bob. We have a few of those
ring-necked doves here, but no crops problem from them so far. We've
just had to run 50 metres of rabbit netting down the sheep-field rylock
boundary though, to keep out one of the biggest hares I've ever seen in
my life..he's been coming in even during the day, and making free with
me plants :-(

It's one of the lucky things about our allotments, two families of Foxes and
possibly a feral ferret (caught on CCTV), means no rabbits or hares


The bit I don't care for, is the birds being kept tethered on
a perch, or hooded, when they aren't flying.


Quite, nothing like seeing these birds flying free and doing their thing
without a care in the world (even if it does mean you get covered in
feathers etc on occasion.) :-)

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Bob

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