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From: "loneroc"
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX]  Evans protection
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:16:58 -0600

A possible solution to the cherry eating bird problem might be to encourage
a bird to nest in the tree.  Counterintuitive, perhaps, but two years ago a
robin nested in my Evans, kept every other bird away, yet touched none of
the cherries so far as I could see.  Last year I had a frost that wiped out
the Evans blossom and had no robin in the tree.  Someone might want to try
putting a robin nesting platform right in the tree.  If I'm not too lazy, I
might just give the robins another chance to save my cherry crop.

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI