On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:03:43 +0100, wrote
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Hello,

We put some seeds out for the birds. I don't know whether this is a
good idea or not. On one hand, hopefully if they eat the seed, they
won't eat my plants! On the other hand, it might draw more birds to
the garden to eat my berries! What do you think?

Anyway, they've eaten two feeders full of seeds already. So my
question is, where can I buy seed in bulk and cheap?


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.

We mostly buy from CJ Birdfoods: http://www.birdfood.co.uk/
Not necessarily the cheapest but good quality.


--
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/gardens.html

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)

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:24:23 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote
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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

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"

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:29:29 +0100, wrote
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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"


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

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

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...

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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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)

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

"Sally Thompson" wrote in message
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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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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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"Mary Fisher" wrote:


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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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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

Jennifer Sparkes wrote:
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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
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