Hello everyone!

I'm a new poster and look forward to enjoying and sharing gardening experiences on this forum.

I live outside Dublin in the countryside, elevation about 400 feet, so weather would be similar to northern England but milder in winter.

Now for my question:

Last spring which was pretty cold I lost a lot of apple buds to goldfinches.

I encourage all small birds by feeding them but when they go for my fruit-buds, it's pretty annoying.

I have seven varieties of apple trees (all about seven years old) and all were attacked.

I have tried tape ribbon from a cassett and pieces of netting (trees are too big to totally enclose.) No success.

Anyone any ideas for next year?

Regards.

Hang CD's up there :-))







"STEELSTOWN" wrote in message
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Hello everyone!

I'm a new poster and look forward to enjoying and sharing gardening
experiences on this forum.

I live outside Dublin in the countryside, elevation about 400 feet, so
weather would be similar to northern England but milder in winter.

Now for my question:

Last spring which was pretty cold I lost a lot of apple buds to
goldfinches.

I encourage all small birds by feeding them but when they go for my
fruit-buds, it's pretty annoying.

I have seven varieties of apple trees (all about seven years old) and
all were attacked.

I have tried tape ribbon from a cassett and pieces of netting (trees
are too big to totally enclose.) No success.

Anyone any ideas for next year?

Regards.


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STEELSTOWN

Thanks! That's worth a try.

Fred.

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:20:53 +0200, martin wrote:

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:02:08 +0000, STEELSTOWN
wrote:


Thanks! That's worth a try.

It doesn't take long to find that CDs have no effect on birds unless
you play the Best of Des O'Connor at 150Db.

I just shout fiercely at noisy crows and it works.