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re blackbirds and mulch
On Sun, 30 May 2004 20:41:24 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "John Edgar" wrote in message .. . Just in case you don't know, allowing birds to be trapped in micronetting is illegal. Judging by your description, yout netting falls into that category. Franz I don't think it is micro netting. It was described as fruit netting. This does not sound like fruit netting :- "The netting is about 1/2" square, and you have to look hard to see it." Sounds single filament fish netting? |
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re blackbirds and mulch
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 30 May 2004 20:41:24 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "John Edgar" wrote in message .. . Just in case you don't know, allowing birds to be trapped in micronetting is illegal. Judging by your description, yout netting falls into that category. Franz I don't think it is micro netting. It was described as fruit netting. This does not sound like fruit netting :- "The netting is about 1/2" square, and you have to look hard to see it." Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? |
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re blackbirds and mulch
"martin" wrote in message ... On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 30 May 2004 20:41:24 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "John Edgar" wrote in message .. . Just in case you don't know, allowing birds to be trapped in micronetting is illegal. Judging by your description, yout netting falls into that category. Franz I don't think it is micro netting. It was described as fruit netting. This does not sound like fruit netting :- "The netting is about 1/2" square, and you have to look hard to see it." Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? Filament fish netting and the micro-netting used by authorised bird ringers. Franz |
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re blackbirds and mulch
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:16:06 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 30 May 2004 20:41:24 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "John Edgar" wrote in message .. . Just in case you don't know, allowing birds to be trapped in micronetting is illegal. Judging by your description, yout netting falls into that category. Franz I don't think it is micro netting. It was described as fruit netting. This does not sound like fruit netting :- "The netting is about 1/2" square, and you have to look hard to see it." Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? Filament fish netting and the micro-netting used by authorised bird ringers. ah! I admit to knowing nothing about the micro netting used by authorised or unauthorised bird ringers. I do know what bird netting used to protect fruit looks like. |
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In article , Franz Heymann writes "martin" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? Filament fish netting and the micro-netting used by authorised bird ringers. Not so. The mist-nets used by bird ringers are completely different from what I understand by mono-filament fish netting. -- Malcolm |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:05:07 +0100, Malcolm
wrote: In article , Franz Heymann writes "martin" wrote in message . .. On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? Filament fish netting and the micro-netting used by authorised bird ringers. Not so. The mist-nets used by bird ringers are completely different from what I understand by mono-filament fish netting. but they all come from Bridport? |
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In article , martin writes On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:05:07 +0100, Malcolm wrote: In article , Franz Heymann writes "martin" wrote in message ... On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? Filament fish netting and the micro-netting used by authorised bird ringers. Not so. The mist-nets used by bird ringers are completely different from what I understand by mono-filament fish netting. but they all come from Bridport? Only some mistnets, nowadays. Japan, Poland, Sweden. -- Malcolm |
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And you will quite possibly have trapped, injured and dead birds in the netting. All because some mulch gets thrown around? The blackbirds are searching for and eating pests that will attack the very plants you are trying to protect. Does a perfectly tidy, manicured, practically hoovered garden make up for more pests and dead birds? ;-) I have a blackbird now that completely disproves your theory. It is able to mess up my drive with the mulch in spite of the netting. It is doing it right through it and still no evidence of trapped birds. Quite the reverse. After making their mess they escape with great alacrity, and I suspect have a jolly good laugh at me. John In limine sapientiae |
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"Malcolm" wrote in message ... In article , Franz Heymann writes "martin" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . Sounds like single filament fish netting? I am probably wrong, but I thought they were the same thing. What are the same thing? Filament fish netting and the micro-netting used by authorised bird ringers. Not so. The mist-nets used by bird ringers are completely different from what I understand by mono-filament fish netting. Thanks for the information. Franz |
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re blackbirds and mulch
On Thu, 27 May 2004 14:58:09 +0100, Jane Ransom wrote:
While I have watched a thrush eating a snail, I have never seen any bird eat a slug ((((((( Chickens and Indian ducks. If you have a slug problem you can actually hire pairs of Indian ducks here (Austria) for a week at a time. They are one of the few sort that eat the big orange-brown Spanish slug (Arion lusitanicus). So I'm told. The good news is that Arion lusitanicus is partial to ground elder - so really what you want to do is kill every slug-eating bird in your neighbourhood. ;-) -- Tim |
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