"K" wrote in message
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Broadback writes
I have a tub with a blueberry in it. Loads of berries, looking forward to
a pie, but they never seemed to ripen. Early one morning I found out why,
a couple of blackbirds were picking the ripe and almost ripe ones for
themselves. So I covered it with netting. The little bs now stand on the
netting and attack the shrub, does not seem to faze them at all. Guess I
will have to make a frame and use that to keep the netting well above the
bush.

I have a pergola with apple trees trained up and over it - a sort of
tunnel of apples. The blackbirds opt for an easy life - the only ones
which get pecked are those which are in easy reach of a blackbird standing
on one of the cross bars of the pergola. So I'm not in the least bit
surprised at them simply standing on your netting.
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I have learned to accept that the odd blackbird will acquire
a taste for strawberries and invade my greenhouse accordingly.

I can be picking at one end of a bench and the cheeky bird can be pecking
berries at the other !

Regards
Pete
www.thecanalshop.com