On 5/10/06 17:59, in article
, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 5/10/06 16:35, in article ,
"Alan
Holmes" wrote:



Well?

Alan


The RSPB suggests that you feed them all year round. We do that here and
they oblige us by also eating the nasties we don't want.

I feed ours all year round unintentionally. I don't actually fill the peanut
feeders from breeding time to about now but almost all the local birds
come - to our hen feeders.

Before we had hens I fed the wild birds all year round. The hens do a much
better job of eating the nasties we don't want.


Unhappily, in the past I have found that the hens I kept also ate quite a
lot of the plants and not always the nasties! I think the suggestion of
free range hens here would be the proverbial lead balloon!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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