To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Bird netting
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:54:13 -0400
On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Stephen Sadler wrote:
Was it you who posted before about having snared critters in the
netting?
Now it looks like the snarings just happened near ground level.
Yes, I posted that before. And yes, most of the snarings happened at
ground level. The juncos were often a bit higher in the netting, but
they are ground feeders, and I believe they got tangled near the
bottom, then flew up into the netting in fear. The chipmunks all got
in at the ground.
For a year I simply left the netting draped over the top, not all the
way down, and I didn't snare many creatures, but I did lose a lot of
fruit from my very low plants. It might not be as much of a problem
with highbush blueberries.