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Re: [GWL]: gardening trends

Raptors gotta eat too. They're usually pretty efficient at killing. IMHO 
the "dark side" of attracting birds to the garden is their
@#$% dust baths that fling carefully planted seeds here and there.  Then 
they stand up and nosh on my tender lettuce babies...and I begin to regret 
having fed those furry fiends all winter.  I'm talking here about 
California quail.  The most beneficial bird in my yard has been English 
sparrows who are small enough to perch on rosebushes to nosh on 
aphids.  Margaret L

>I recently read a note here that said gardeners are buying more ornaments and
>fewer plants.  The writer sighed at that.  I don't.
>Anything that keeps gardeners out there among their plantings is a positive,
>and there's no surer way to put your personal stamp on a garden, to make it
>uniquely yours, than to decorate it with artwork as you would the interior of
>your home.  Granted, sometimes it's all gnomes and flamingoes... the outdoor
>version of Elvis-on-velvet and poker-playing dogs.  Not for me, nor for me to
>judge.  Everyone starts from where they are.
>Appropos of nothing, has anyone here written or read anything on the dark
>side of attracting birds to the garden -- i.e., the inevitable arrival of
>raptors?
>JF

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