Re: Birds (and corrections)

> Could it be insects they are actually eating on your 
>plant? Just a thought.
>Deb

I just had to laugh at all the fuss my innocent question caused.  Here
are the clarifications for those who think my feathered friends really
don't eat my plants.

I sit at my backyard table in full view of the plants in question (Did I
mention that I've given up growing spinach in my vegetable patch because
they eat it ALL before I can harvest???) . . . . .The sparrows (common
brown sparrows) land on my clematis or sedum (only the thick leaved
autumn joy types) and peck away . .. in droves.  Not one or two birds,
but 10 or twenty.  I've had my DH come out and sit with me to verify this
is happening. (Jenny Overholt - if you're out there please come over soon
and I'll show you the marks - you can prove it!!!)

These same common brown sparrows fly over the fence from my neighbors
always-filled-feeders and have a salad at my expense.  I watch the same
common brown sparrows chasing and eating those little white moths around
at all times of the day, as well as shaking the aphids out of my sick
locust tree and then jumping down to eat the spoils.  Can't convince me
sparrows only eat seeds.The Mourning doves have chewed on my clematis as
well (it grows up along a windowsill) and they sit on it eating whatever
leaves they can reach.  I guess I have the only omnivorous sparrows and
mourning doves in the country. 

I will also add that a neighbor has a bat house on their roof and THEY
are the prime insectors in our area.  We are semi-wooded, rivered
suburbia and they are getting fat on the bugs here.  And they're fun to
watch and listen to at dusk. (Add bats to the fauna list, Jeanne)

I'm glad you all don't have this problem, but I wish someone did, so I
could find something other than bird netting to fend them off.

<sigh>
Pat
USDA Zone 5 Milwaukee suburb - Wisconsin
Pat-Mitchell@juno.com

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