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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

Netting is easy to obtain from several sources even a novice such as myself 
is aware of and with competing prices that put no strain on my tiny budget.
 
Got to look into those big red beads to keep birds away from the English 
Morello pie cherries, which see to ripen last of all cherries.
Dave Liezen
 

> From: interverbis@videotron.ca
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:56:17 -0400
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries
> 
> Hi,
> There is a commercial blueberries self-picking farm nearby and they use a 
> soundtrack of birds in distress on a speaker. I inquired about it, and of 
> course did not realize about the type of cries it was. Apparently, it keeps 
> the wild birds away because they feel that there is a danger... It is not a 
> bad bird sound for the pickers to listen to and of course we are not scared 
> off by it... :)
> It could be an interesting route that might warrant further investigation 
> as 
> this would be a lot cheaper than netting, but I do not know whether the 
> birds eventually get used to it...
> 
> Hélène, zone 3-4 north of Ottawa
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jerrydana5@aol.com>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:05 AM
> Subject: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to keep birds from my blueberries? Netting is 
> > terribly expensive. (about 14 bushes in a row) and they always seem to 
> > get 
> > underneath it. pie tins? Muffin tins? I'm tired of feeding the birds 
> > this way. jerry in southern Indiana
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