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- From: Hans Brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:50:28 +0100
Hallo Donna,
because I expected many positive answers to your excellent comment, I am a little bit disappointed.
Each of your sentence is right, true and very positive!
I think we all have our responsibility for all the things we do (and failing to do) and especially fruit-growers
have many chances to take this responsibility, to improve situations and to do simultaneously education for children,
neighbors and other people. They are able to put the focus to small - usual not visible - things, tastes, relations between and pleasures.
ciao
Hans
Donna &/or Kieran schrieb:
Cats may take their toll, but the humans are doing more than their fair share. What's really reduced the quail population in Tennessee is fescue, they say that it's so thick that baby quail can't move around in it. The other thing, that really gets me, is the damned weedeaters. People move out in the country and try to make their entire yard look like a carpet, including cutting all grass and weeds right up to the road. They have nice smooth expanses which would be convenient for watching wildlife, if only there were any wildlife left to watch. Sure, deer and rabbits eat grass, but quail need bugs and weed/grass SEEDS, which aren't produced when everything is kept 2" high.
Another thing that gets me is the horse population. Used to be that horse lovers would have one horse. Now they have 4 of them, in the same space. The horses not only eat everything down to the ground, but they are dependent on lots of hay and grain. I hardly ever see anyone actually ride one of the creatures.
If you stop and think about it, most NAFEXers increase species diversity. Certainly compared to the average American lawn, we create more green stuff at different heights, creating both cover and food. At our place, the soil was so terrible in the cleared area that few species of weeds would grow. Now the soil is better over an acre or so, and we have provided a great deal of food to the voles, flying squirrels( they like tomatoes), chicken snakes (they like eggs) hawks and owls (they like chickens), cardinals (they like chicken feed, and peas pecked fresh from the pods) and a multitude of birds that like blueberries. A bit of controlled predation is not a bad thing, especially as so many wild predators are gone. The real enemy for birds is loss of food and habitat. I remember someone years ago commenting that after bug zappers became a fad, they heard and saw far fewer birds. Donna
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[NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Jim Fruth, 02/15/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Hans Brinkmann, 02/15/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Donna &/or Kieran, 02/15/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Hans Brinkmann, 02/18/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation, Michael Nave, 02/18/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Hans Brinkmann, 02/18/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Donna &/or Kieran, 02/15/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruit>squirrels>cats> bird predation,
Hans Brinkmann, 02/15/2007
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