birds tag
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Birds and bark chips? What can I put on my bark chips to stop the dam birds pecking them all over my lovely lawn. Thanks. |
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Lady Birds What can we do to encourage lady birds into the garden? I was weeding yesterday and saw some eating aphids on my roses and was thinking that they do more good than damage in the garden? |
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Birds are Eating my Tomatoes This is a new one for me, as for over 40yrs growing a garden, this has never happened before. I now have netting covering all the plants, but the lower toms are still getting hammered; and no its not snails or grubs. |
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Birds eating swan tree caterpillars I have just got another lot of caterpillars on my plant. Hope they last longer than the last lot. Has anyone else had this problem of birds picking them off one by one. Im off to buy some bird netting, so these ones will survive. I had eight caterpillars ... |
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Helping the birds in the drought grated apple!orange!water! |
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How to stop birds pecking at tomatos and cucumbers! |
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Tomatoes being eaten by birds - help My tomatoes are being eaten by birds and I have hardly been able to get any to eat. So I put netting over to keep them away but the netting is keeping out the bees, so not pollinating. Only have bumble bees around and they are too big to get through the n... |
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Protecting goldfish from birds Any ideas on the best way to do this! |
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Birds in fruit trees Any ideas for saving fruit from the birds please!I've done plastic bags (the noise upset a neighbour) have two scraggy scarecrows, hung DVD's in the trees, but would like a new option.Any ideas!Yes I have 2 cats!I don't mind sharing with the b... |
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Birds and slug slam? slug slam sprinkled in and around the veggie garden has been great at protecting young seedlings from those marauding slugs and snailsbut i have noticed that the dead slimy creatures have been disappearing and i suspect birds have also been dining on them... |
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Protecting grapes from birds I use old net curtains looks ugly but so am i so who cares. |
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How to stop birds eating my lawn seed. I laid the (coated) lawn seed down on Saturday and a flock of yellow finches are eating it like there's no tomorrow. I laid down bird netting but that hasn't worked. Has anyone used the holographic tape? |
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Birds We have a couple of reasonably friendly blackbirds with babies who come to our garden every day and night. I love watching the parents feed the babies. Also have sparrows and 2 thrushes. We try not to feed them white bread, sometimes rea |
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Birds are eating my Nashi pears! They're not even ripe yet, but when I look out the window I see the birds busily pecking away, and fruit still on the tree has holes pecked out of it. I don't mind sharing my pears, and already leave bread scraps and so on out for the birds. B |
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How to deter birds from newly laid lawn Had our lawn sprayed, top dressed and hydro seeded around 3 - 4 weeks ago. The birds are now making a total mess of the new lawn that is up. Not eating seed but digging holes and pulling up new lawn. We have tried holographic tape, bird netting (but to la... |
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Birds and grass seed Buy seed with bird repellent on it? |
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How to keep birds of newly planted vegetable garde I just spotted that one had pulled out the lettuce plants, I cant cover the area, how else can I discourage them from feeding on my pride and joy? |
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Keeping birds out of my grapevine My vine is on a fence. Last year tried the black netting, but came home one day and found a thrush strangled in it. Don't want to kill them just scare them away. Have a blackbird here at the moment that chases our cat. He thinks he owns our garden. |
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Bird netting that dosen't kill or Catch birds Hi Crew, I have a boxed garden which I have built a wooden frame around and wish to enclose it with netting. The netting will be tightish around the frame, if you can imagine a greenhouse with netting not glass. I do not wish to harm the |
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Birds digging in the Garden Have tidied up an area about 6 metre by 3 metre, and spend a lot of potted colour. The birds are digging at the roots and in this heat the plants are dying very quickly, is there a way to stop this, I know of slug and snail pellets but is there bird pelle... |
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A annoying. Shitty. Problem. BIRDS We are in a subdivision in Rolleston chch. Have house with normal patio, furniture etc. Every day this is effected by bird poop. Are there any solutions to this? We dont have pets. Thanks. |
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Tomatoes and birds I have strung up some cd's on the frame by the tomatoes, works a treat, the birds don't like the shine the cd's make as they blow in the breeze. So far so good! |
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Has anyone noticed the lack of birds this season? Usually at this time of year, we have flocks of young starlings around us, the blackbirds are singing or scratching amongst the leave litter, also the thrushes are in the garden seeking out snails etc. Even the raucous magpie doesn't seem to be around. Fl... |
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How to keep birds off the louisa plums? Any thoughts on how to keep the birds off the bumper crop of louisa plums, tree is loaded and they are not ripe, just a bit of red on the ends which the birds are getting to,so frustrating. Any ideas considered. |
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Birds eating our fruit What is the BEST way to stop these damn birds eating our fruit? |
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