permaculture

[yarrow@sfo.com]

LGBs. Sparrows, maybe? I never did learn all the little gray birds. 
Hmm, I don't recall if I saw a bird eating the comfrey, but the 
pattern of bites at the edges of the leaves was the same as on the 
broccoli leaves that I did see them eat, or the sorrel in the next 
garden, which gets eaten down to the ground over the winter. They eat 
the comfrey only in the winter, when there is little else; no one 
bothers it in the summer. I'll have to pay attention when I start to 
see the comfrey leaves getting bitten this year, assuming that it 
hasn't died back from the cold by the time it becomes palatable to 
them and they've run out of better greens. But I have lots of 
broccoli this year, so maybe they'll stick with that.

This morning I saw a phoebe on the fence, probably looking for 
insects. Sometimes when I'm in the garden, I see the LGBs hopping 
around five or ten feet away. They especially enjoy rummaging through 
newly placed compost, or ducking under unsecured bird netting. I 
leave a saucer of water for them, so that if what they're looking for 
is moisture, they can have a drink instead of a broccoli leaf.

Scrub jays are around a lot, too, but I see them mostly when another 
gardener comes with a bag of peanuts to feed them. I've never seen 
them eating from my garden.

At 11:17 AM -0800 12/15/06, Patrick McKown wrote:
> What birds are eating it?