On 2/5/05 11:13, in article ,
"NK" wrote:


"Lee and Kath" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:58:47 +0000 (UTC), "Mike" wrote:

"Mike" wrote in message
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Since posting the above, we have had to re stock the string AND put the
fluff from the Tumble Drier filter into a ball and tied that up!! They
went
mad over that and fought each off!!

What do you put it in?


I just tied a bit of string round the middle of the ball and then made a
loop over a nail in the fence. Some interest in it, but then it rained
heavily so it's a bit soggy.


IME, the birds won't touch it because it does go soggy and retains the
wetness, unlike natural vegetable material or even strips of plastic torn
from the mypex, which the blackbirds seem to like particularly! When we
clean out our hairbrushes we put the 'dead hair' out of the window, onto the
twigs of a climbing rose, and the birds come and grab it to line their
nests.
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