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I have never known a bird eat a plant. What birds are eating what plants? They are your friends and if you encourage them into your garden they will on the other hand eat some of the pests. -- points at all the wood pigeons scoffing cabbages and god knows what else ;o) |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:24:23 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote
(in article ): The message et from Sally Thompson contains these words: I have never known a bird eat a plant. What birds are eating what plants? Wood pigeons or pheasants eat brassicas and salad crops; blackbirds and starlings, and magpies, and chickens, all eat soft fruit and stone fruit. Many birds graze grass. clover and herbage and peck flowers. Yes, I realise I was just thinking of plants=flowers and that the OP meant the whole plant and/or foliage, and we don't really have a problem apart from yellow crocus. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Whitton Open Gardens weekend 1st & 2nd July; enjoy the conservation churchyard recently filmed for the BBC Heaven and Earth Show and see the Burne-Jones/William Morris window: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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Sally Thompson wrote:
I have never known a bird eat a plant. What birds are eating what plants? Geese eat quite a lot. They can graze an area closer than a goat, and that's quite a lot of plants. Ever wondered why Gallium is called "Goose-Grass" |
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:29:29 +0100, wrote
(in article .com): Sally Thompson wrote: I have never known a bird eat a plant. What birds are eating what plants? Geese eat quite a lot. They can graze an area closer than a goat, and that's quite a lot of plants. Ever wondered why Gallium is called "Goose-Grass" I hadn't considered geese since the OP referred to seed feeders and I've yet to see a goose on one of thoseg. As for the Goose-Grass, I've always liked the name "Sticky Willy" :-) -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Whitton Open Gardens weekend 1st & 2nd July; enjoy the conservation churchyard recently filmed for the BBC Heaven and Earth Show and see the Burne-Jones/William Morris window: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:23:29 +0100, wrote
(in article ): On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:46:05 +0100, Sally Thompson wrote: I have never known a bird eat a plant. What birds are eating what plants? Hello again, Thanks everyone for the replies. Sorry, I should have been clearer: they eat my soft fruits and berries. I wouldn't mind if they ate anything else, but I grow the fruit for me, not them! Yes, I'm sorry, I was very tired and just misunderstood what you had written. I wasn't including fruits and vegetables in my thoughts of plantsg. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Whitton Open Gardens weekend 1st & 2nd July; enjoy the conservation churchyard recently filmed for the BBC Heaven and Earth Show and see the Burne-Jones/William Morris window: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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Sally Thompson wrote:
As for the Goose-Grass, I've always liked the name "Sticky Willy" :-) Yes, but you are a girl and it wouldn't have the same subliminal terrors... |
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In article et, Sally
Thompson writes I have never known a bird eat a plant. You must be joking! Pigeons have eaten through all my crop of calabrase, broccoli and sprouts and I'm having to put some more plants in and consider netting as it's really bad this year. janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... In article et, Sally Thompson writes I have never known a bird eat a plant. You must be joking! Pigeons have eaten through all my crop of calabrase, broccoli and sprouts and I'm having to put some more plants in and consider netting as it's really bad this year. It is, magpies and woodpigeons have learned to get into y small plots in hurdle enclosures. Bean netting across the top has solved the problem, at least temporarily. Mary Not to mention sparrows eating the crocus and primroses, and bullfinches haveing all the buds on the forsythia, and I still don't know which bird pulls all the onion sets up each year! -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:40:18 +0100, Janet Tweedy wrote
(in article ): In article et, Sally Thompson writes I have never known a bird eat a plant. You must be joking! Pigeons have eaten through all my crop of calabrase, broccoli and sprouts and I'm having to put some more plants in and consider netting as it's really bad this year. Yes, I know, I did explain in another post. I was very tired and the OP mentioned seed feeders, so I didn't associate the problem with vegetables. Sorry for your pigeon problems though. Perhaps you can develop a taste for pigeon pieg -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Whitton Open Gardens weekend 1st & 2nd July; enjoy the conservation churchyard recently filmed for the BBC Heaven and Earth Show and see the Burne-Jones/William Morris window: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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"Sally Thompson" wrote in message al.net... Yes, I know, I did explain in another post. I was very tired and the OP mentioned seed feeders, so I didn't associate the problem with vegetables. Sorry for your pigeon problems though. Perhaps you can develop a taste for pigeon pieg We love pigeon meat, Spouse wants a gun ... Mary |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words: We love pigeon meat, Spouse wants a gun ... Why not give him a catapult? That's a thought! But he also wants to deal with the magpies next year which have increased in number so that they really are a pest - to other birds' hatchlings. Mary Janet. |
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On 3/7/06 09:45, in article ,
"Mary Fisher" wrote: "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words: We love pigeon meat, Spouse wants a gun ... Why not give him a catapult? That's a thought! But he also wants to deal with the magpies next year which have increased in number so that they really are a pest - to other birds' hatchlings. We were in Bristol yesterday and saw more magpies in a few hours than we see in a week round here. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (email address on website) |
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from Sacha contains these words: We were in Bristol yesterday and saw more magpies in a few hours than we see in a week round here. My wishes for their welfare are not at all kind ... Jennifer - in Bristol |
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Jennifer Sparkes wrote:
The message from Sacha contains these words: We were in Bristol yesterday and saw more magpies in a few hours than we see in a week round here. My wishes for their welfare are not at all kind ... Jennifer - in Bristol The neighbours must think I'm mad(der) because whenever I see one in our garden I'm out of the kitchen clapping my hands to chase it away. A couple of years back we heard a really distressed sounding bird in the front garden. It was so loud it had woken us up (about 6am). A pair of blackbirds were frantically trying to chase a magpie away frm their nest. Unfortunately by the time I'd got some clothes on the magpie had suceeded. It was heartbreaking. I don't mind sparrowhawks, I can cope with the cheek of starlings. But there's something evil about magpies. -- NK Follow spamtrap instructions to reply |
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