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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Getting rid of catbirds, etc.
  • Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:24:35 -0500

Alan Haigh wrote, "................compared to catbirds which are unbelievably aggressive fruit feeders."


I agree about Catbirds and lucked into an easy way to get rid of them. I've had them on several years and paid particular attention to where they were nest building. When their nest looked completed, I destroyed it and they left not to return. I wish robins were banished that easily.

Another observation is that all(?) fruit eating birds will leave red fruits untouched if there are black or blue fruits to plunder. I've got my blueberries close to my (red) cherries and the cherries go unnoticed by the birds. I do have bird netting laid over the blueberries but the birds have access to the upper-most blueberries.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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