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  • From: yarrow@sfo.com
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Comfrey
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:08:33 -0800

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?




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