In message , Mary Fisher
writes

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...

Don't be in too much hurry to blame the sparrows. I am sure I read that
some bees will do this when they cannot get into the flower. If only I
could remember where.

Bumble bees will make a hole in the corolla from the outside to get at the
nectar, it doesn't usually prevent pollination though and I've never seen
them nip off the flkower.

Nor anything else, come to that - but I don't spend all my time watching
runner beans :-)

Mary

Neither do I, they don't move much in the five minutes or so I devote to
them every morning.
Unlike the wood pigeon which walked round and round the squirrel proof
feeding table the whole time I was eating breakfast this morning.
The upturned hanging basket cage defeats them all, but bears the scars
of squirrel teeth.
--
Gordon H