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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

 My ducks have proven they can't count (leave two wooden decoy eggs on the 
nest and she'll sit on them as if there were 6 times that many).
 I imagine most birds wouldn't notice if the hard beads were 1/4" larger or 
smaller than the fruit you hope to protect (happens in nature that not all 
fruits are of uniform size). If I hadn't already netted my Morello pie cherry 
tree against birds, I'd try some red beads about a month before harvest.
Dave Liezen, zone5/6 E. WA
 

> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:32:03 -0500
> From: qazingulaza@gmail.com
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Robins and Evans Cherries
> 
> I keep forgetting to try this. Do you use red beads that are the same
> size as cherries or are they a lot smaller?
> 
> ~mIEKAL
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:
> >    I keep (LOTS of) red berry beads on my Evans Cherry trees the whole 
> > year
> > around.  The Robins peck on them, deciding they are inedible and don't 
> > come
> > back when the trees are full of cherries.  If you do this for yourself, be
> > sure and attach the beads with dead-soft aluminum wire that expands as the
> > branches grow.
> >
> > Jim Fruth
> > Brambleberry Fruit Farm
> > 4002 Davis Street
> > Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
> > 1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)
> >
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