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Re: [GWL]: gardening trends



Brook Elliott wrote:

>  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?
>
> Huh? Why is that the dark side?

Do grackles count as raptors? Because once we put in our second, larger pond we not only had all
the song birds but grackles and red winged blackbirds.

Not just a few. There may have been over a thousand. They would start to arrive in great waves
just before sundown. Wave followed wave until it seemed that there couldn't possibly be any more
birds in the world - and that's when another wave would wing its way from the distance.

They would settle in various trees around the property, then rise, circle and settle in different
ones - but eventually they all headed for a wooded area of the yard where they'd stay for the
night.

 The ground was white with droppings which, I have read, can carry disease. And in the area where
they spent the night nothing will grow - and all the grass adjoining it has died.

They did this for about three years straight. Last year they must have found a new home.

But judging by the number of feathers I saw scattered everywhere they took some of their smaller
brethren hostage.

The evening show was actually impressive - but the poisoned ground is a dark side.
Carol
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