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["philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>]

My blackbirds and mockingbirds are smart enough to know a plastic owl when 
they see one.  My 2 "owls" from Lowes haven't stopped them from munching on 
my persimmons and muscadines.  I move them every day also.  Neither did CDs 
hung in the tree do anything.  Netting works.
phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thetes_Mark_Straka" <ling.mark@msa.hinet.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:37:02 -0700
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?

> I just saw a "prowler owl" with a four-foot wingspan to mount on a 1/2" 
> pole to scare off bird pests (on eBay: 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4314418476&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AMT%3A1)
>   I was wondering if anyone has used this or something like this, and of 
> course, how effective it is.  [By the way, what's the opposite of "decoy?"]
> 
> I'm trying to read Fred Brison's Pecan Culture, but I'm having trouble 
> getting through Chapter Two.  It is laced with vocabulary like: pericycle, 
> acropetal, xylem, parenchyma, schlerenchyma, medullary ray tissue, 
> abscission, sessile flowers, bract, apical dominance, perianth, peduncle, 
> and I could go on.  I am in bad need of some reference work that will get 
> me up to speed (hopefully illustrated!) and I'm soliciting recommendations 
> right now.  Thank you all very much.
> 
> I'm a rank beginning pecan orchardist.
> 
Mark Straka
>
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