blackbirds and cutworms

in my case I am absolutely convinced that they disturb the mulch to eat cutworms.
my soil is so bad i didnīt have any worms for a long time.
yet I had an abundant supply of cutworms driving me to despair sometimes.
a blackbird appeared one winter and started scracthing the mulch making a real mess.
a succession of blackbirds followed, only to be murdered by the cat one after another. I could clearly notice that the periods when I was blackbirdless, cutworm damage was vastly worse.
my efforts to "always " keep water available for blackbirds  and the aging of my cat have paid off and now I have blackbirds in residence all year. I watch with great satisfacction the results of their scratching for I know that where there is scratched mulch there was a cutworm .
interestingly enough, they havenīt touched the strawberries.. my new puppy eats them delicately without harming the plants!
need to dognet them
francisco
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