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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

Del, this is why I gave up trying to net my strawberries.  The first
year I carefully laid netting over the berries and used rocks to hold it
down at the edges in an attempt to exclude chipmunks.  I killed a few
juncos and several chipmunks (and still got not a berry.)  I have no
idea how the juncos even got in - maybe they are small enough to creep
through the holes.  I now make sure that none of my nets is fixed to the
ground.  Oddly, not only did I reduce the chipmunk take, but I haven't
caught a bird since.  I did catch a chipmunk recently where the netting
was bunched on the ground.

In a couple of years when the blueberries get going for real, I'll let
you know if netting draped to a couple of inches above the ground is
good enough.

Ginda

del stubbs wrote:
> 
> Tonight, I spent 10 minutes painstakingly extracting a small bird that was
> hopelessly entangled in our tree netting.  The day before I had killed and
> extracted a chipmunk. And the week before had found one dead by the same
> grizzly entanglement. The net was sagging on the ground- where I'm guesssing
> they got caught just by traveling. It's rolled up and stashed now.
> I kill animals for various reasons, but never brutally like this. All I can
> figure to do is be sure the net is taughtly stretched everywhere, no rolled
> up or saggy bits, not always easy. Del
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