"Neil Cairns" wrote:

Every year I have planted onion sets in my modest vegetable plot, and
before they have had time to get established several of them are lifted,
by birds (presumably).The sets are left lying on the ground.Why do birds
do this ?

I was told that they mistake the shoots for worms and pull them up. When
they get an onion and not a worm they leave it there, being unable or
unwilling to put it back.

-=# Amos E Wolfe #=-