Kay Easton wrote in
:

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.

In my garden, I have observed blue tits and I think also great tits
rummaging round the tips of my rose bushes and honeysuckles. They don't
seem to damage the plants, so I have always assumed they are eating
greenfly ( I don't get that close, so maybe they are up to something else -
dunno what tho).

At any rate, those plants don't have a greenfly problem, though I did find
the odd one here and there when I looked today.

Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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