In article , John Edgar
writes


Do you have the right small birds? They're not all insect eaters.
Bluetits seem to be the best for eating aphids, as others have said, and
I often see them eating aphids on the honeysuckle outside the kitchen
window.

How can you have "wrong" or "right" birds in the garden?

wrong or right for the purpose - in this case eating greenfly. If the
only birds in your garden are seed eaters, you are not going to observe
them eating greenfly.

Surely you
get what arrives don't you?

Of course.
Whether they decide to stay around depends on the conditions that you
encourage, but that isn't really relevant to the point I was making.

You can't choose them. I can sort of see
your point though. I cannot stand magpies and chase them away at every
opportunity, so I suppose, for me, they must be the wrong birds. I do
the same with grey squirrels - nasty creatures.

Elegant movers, and not so nasty if you're in a city where squirrels are
not over abundant and any sort of wildlife is welcome.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm