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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

   My trained(?) Robins ignored my Juneberries and cherries long enough for 
me to harvest most of them.  I leave fake berries hanging in these trees and 
bushes the year around.
   Then, when the fledglings left the nest, they went straight for the 
unpicked fruit and cleaned up on it in a matter of days.  At first the 
parent (conditioned) Robins didn't join their young in the berry feast but 
did so after a few hours into the feeding frenzy.  I need another idea to 
keep the fledglings off the fruit.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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