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What insects will eat greenfly?
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"Sacha" wrote in message k... On 4/6/04 22:06, in article , "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message k... snip I don't know what you mean by summer quarters but yes, the blue tits are still here and the Little Owls are back, while the rooks are taking their annual holiday. I think the blue, great and coal tits disperse into the woods in the vicinity during the summer season.. They really only overwinter in and around our garden. The sparrows, chaffinches, goldfinches and greenfinches are here the year round. {That is, if we continue feeding them. Pure cupboard love. {:-(( Sensible creatures! We seem to have blue tits all year round. BUT the great tits we had earlier do seem to have off somewhere. I'd love to know why all these birds follow these patterns - the summer holiday of the rooks and Little Owls fascinate us. The owls go first and then come back about now and start that slightly wussy 'wooooo' thing at about 3pm Ours do it at 3 am and again as it starts to get light. It's almost as if the rooks go 'on holiday' and say to the Little Owls, "Okay, we've been waking them up at 4-5ish every morning, now it's your turn". Strange but true! AND, we have seen Little Owl babies up in the Cedar tree (don't know about nests) using it as a perch while yelling to and fro with Mum and that tree is the hub of our rookery. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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