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Mine was sold as bird netting, but has square holes maybe 2cm on a side - perfect to catch buttons. I have used the same piece over my blueberry bushes for the past several years, although it's always a nuisance to take it out and to put it away again. Definitely a black monofilament. It does keep the birds off my blueberries, and since keeping it off the ground I haven't killed any small animals (birds or chipmunks) in it.
Ginda
On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:52 PM, John S wrote: Ginda, I tried the black monofilament stuff one time and threw it out. We are talking the kind sold as "bird netting" with the triangular mesh, right? I now use "deer netting" with a square mesh that is slightly larger than the triangular but still black monofilament The deer netting is much more managable and is reusable. No doubt that's why they were snared. But I have seen juncos feeding
on my red currants.
The low hardware-cloth fence around the blueberries has completely
eliminated critter-death in my blueberry netting (even though I use
the black monofilament stuff). An outdoor cat has eliminated the
need to net the currants and raspberries, so long as I pick them
fairly promptly. She kills some critters, but at least I don't have
to disentangle the little corpses from my netting.
I'm intrigued by the white woven netting, however, which I hadn't
seen before. I hate the black monofilament stuff. It's fragile, and
it gets tangled in everything, such as my buttons and itself.
Contrary to Alan's experience, most of the birds do seem to see it,
however. Two years ago a bird watched me as I spread the netting
over my just-about-ripe blueberry bed. As soon as I finished, the
bird checked it out, hopping from post to post (I drape the netting
over the same posts that the hardware cloth is attached to), looking
carefully at the protected blueberries, and tweeting loudly at each
stop. Perhaps it was my imagination, but he certainly sounded
frustrated and angry with me. (I don't remember the species. It
wasn't a junco, something more solitary and territorial that had been
guarding the patch from its kin, I think.)
Ginda
On Nov 25, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:
> Ginda,
> Don't blame the Juncos. They are ground feeding seed eaters.
> Notice
> how they scratch the ground, then peck at seeds (usually weed
> seeds) they
> uncovered.
> One year I thought it would be cute to have them eat at my
> (sunflower
> seed) bird feeder. A flock of them had been feeding on the ground
> under it
> for several days. So I set the feeder on the ground and, every
> day, I
> adjusted it up a little higher. They seemed to be voracious eaters
> because
> the feeder was emptied every day. By the time I got it to window
> level so I
> could watch them, I was appalled over what I had done. The Juncos
> didn't
> know how to open the sunflower seed shells so they scratched them
> overboard
> looking for the shelled bits and the Chickadees were eating off the
> ground.
> I was wondering how the cats could catch so many Chickadees.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
> For jams, jellies & syrups:
> www.bberryfarm.com
> (877)265-6856 [Store]
> (218)831-7018 [My Cell]
>
> I think the squirrels and chipmunks do more damage overall than any
> birds,
> but the birds I snared in netting over my blueberries and currants
> were
> mostly juncos. Whether that's because they are the worst fruit-
> eaters or
> just because they are dumb or have poor eyesight or are other wise
> prone to
> snaring, I can't say.
> ___
> Ginda
>
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