Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 60, Issue 10

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

I remember waking at dawn in a guest room at Woodbrooke, the Quaker  
college in Birmingham, England, to see a squirrel painstakingly  
unrolling the duct tape that a member of staff had spent half the  
previous afternoon wrapping round a "squirrel proof" feeder as an  
extra line of defence. He then proceeded to chew through the wire by  
which it hung. As soon as it was on the ground he was joined by three  
others and they made short work of removing the top. Took them about  
40 minutes altogether to undo a couple of hours of human endeavour.

We had a snowy egret overfly the garden this afternoon - just before  
it started to snow. I reckon bird feed should be tax deductible for  
professional gardeners - bringing the  birds in is a sound method of  
pest control. At Sonairte we got rid of 80% of our codlin moth  
population when we changed from winter feeding to year round feeding.

Alas, we discovered that we had had a resident water rail on  
Christmas Eve when one of the cats slaughtered it in the sitting room.

Kathryn

On 3 Jan 2008, at 21:55, Mary Henry wrote:

>  We enjoy the Anna's hummers year round and feed all comers
> (including, alas, several feeder chewing squirrels). Our neighbors
> feed also, so we have a constant parade.
>
> Mary Henry
> M&MHC
>
>
>
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