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["Erdman, James" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>]

I hoped to try the plastic cherry bead trick but can't find suitable beads.  
Is there a mail order source available, along with the appropriate part 
number, etc., so I can get the best size and color?
We have nets on 2 of our cherries, laid over a frame of PVC pipe, and the 
nets are getting weathered and tear easily, and I can't find a source of 
adequate sized netting that I can afford, so the beads sounds good.  
I did also make a dozen or so wren houses hoping that wrens would drive away 
the cherry eating birds (primarily robins, the Wisconsin official state bird, 
and a disgusting pest, in my opinion).  Don't have many wrens around, though, 
and not sure why.
 
Thanks.
 
Jim, in Menomonie, WI

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Jim Fruth
Sent: Thu 7/22/2010 8:39 AM
To: NAFEX
Subject: [NAFEX] Evans cherry



Ernest Plutko wrote, "Birds always get to fruit first I need nets."


    I keep red plastic "cherry" beads on my Evans Cherries all year around
and the birds don't eat the cherries when they ripen.  Of course, having
other fruits to munch or probable helps too.

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