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Re: JUDITH , PLEASE READ THIS

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-21, 1:25 pm

On May 21, 1:28 pm, "Geoff" <N...@virgin.net> wrote:
> I wonder if the bluetits visit a peanut dispenser? If they do, I expect the
> nest box smells of peanuts. I suppose there's a possibility that the
> woodpecker can smell peanuts in the box and is trying to get to them.
>
> Perfumed spray might deter it!!!
>
> Geoff

I couldn't smell any peanut to be on the safe side, I sprayed Chanel
No. 5 on the roof.

Judith

Sacha

2007-05-21, 1:25 pm

On 21/5/07 15:55, in article
1179759328.988323.114700@z24g2000prd.googlegroups.com,
"judith.lea99@googlemail.com" <judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On May 21, 1:28 pm, "Geoff" <N...@virgin.net> wrote:
>
> I couldn't smell any peanut to be on the safe side, I sprayed Chanel
> No. 5 on the roof.
>
> Judith
>
Probably not a good move. That is alien to the parent birds as well as the
woodpecker. It takes birds a while to get used to new things, so leave the
basket on and leave the best well alone but I'd wipe off the perfume first.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

Des Higgins

2007-05-21, 5:25 pm

<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1179759328.988323.114700@z24g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> On May 21, 1:28 pm, "Geoff" <N...@virgin.net> wrote:
>
> I couldn't smell any peanut to be on the safe side, I sprayed Chanel
> No. 5 on the roof.

Holey mother of divine sweet jayzes.
I suppose it is lucky you did not have any Lynx.
The poor things.

Des

>
> Judith
>

Sacha

2007-05-22, 1:25 pm

On 22/5/07 17:57, in article
1179853079.598814.150560@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com,
"judith.lea99@googlemail.com" <judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On May 21, 11:23 pm, "Des Higgins" <dazzhigg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> That's all very well Des Higgins but I would have resorted to Joy
> (Patou I think) if I had to. I feel I am rearing these chicks.

Well, at least it wasn't Bal a Versailles....
>
> I came home from the office this evening and what did I do? Did I run
> in and pour myself a glass of wine? Did I set the iicrowave for my
> Italian M & S supper, no I didn't. I went round to the back, without
> even opening the front door mind, and wonder of wonders, I can hear
> little chirping and little nails on the wooden floor of the box, they
> are alive so I won't have to bring them in yet to save them.

They'll live to thank you for that! If the parents have returned? Have
they, do you know? Otherwise you're going to have to find some worms etc.,
chew them up a bit and then shove them in through that little hole to your
greedy babies.
>
> Did I tell you that last year, when a little bird was sitting on her
> nest, in fierce sunshine, in a bed of geraniums, that I got her a
> drink of water in a ramikin and put her beak into it. When I came
> back from a weekend away, the bird had flown and all I could see were
> shell particles, she was sitting on 6 eggs, and one dead baby bird.
>
> How long from hatching to flying off does it take as I can't be doing
> with all this stress at my age and getting up at 5a.m. to shoo the
> long pecker off.
>
> Judith
>
Freudian slip alert. ;-))

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

Judy Bolton

2007-05-22, 1:25 pm

> Probably not a good move. That is alien to the parent birds as well as
> the
> woodpecker. It takes birds a while to get used to new things, so leave
> the
> basket on and leave the best well alone but I'd wipe off the perfume
> first.
>
>
> --
> Sacha
> http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
> (remove weeds from address)
>
>

Most birds - truly, almost all - do not have a well-developed sense of
smell, so spraying things or having "eau de peanut" leftover from other
birds isn't going to make a difference.

The person who told Judith that "it's nature" is absolutely correct. It
isn't always pretty, but there is a reason animals and birds do what they
do. Tits would overpopulate and suffer if other animals and birds did not
naturally keep their populations in check. The exception is cats/dogs.
They are now domesticated and are NOT natural predators, so allowing them to
prey on birds and small mammals is not nature.

I agree - leave the situation alone. Spraying perfume probably does more
harm to the birds you're trying to protect than it does the birds you're
trying to chase.

Judy B

Anne Jackson

2007-05-22, 5:25 pm

The message from "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> contains these words:

> That's all very well Des Higgins but I would have resorted to Joy
> (Patou I think) if I had to.

Joy? Lovely perfume... my current favourite.

--
AnneJ

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~Rosa Luxemburg

Martin

2007-05-22, 5:25 pm

On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:04:17 +0100, Sacha <sacha@gardenweeds506.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>On 22/5/07 17:57, in article
>1179853079.598814.150560@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com,
>"judith.lea99@googlemail.com" <judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>Well, at least it wasn't Bal a Versailles....
>
>They'll live to thank you for that! If the parents have returned? Have
>they, do you know? Otherwise you're going to have to find some worms etc.,
>chew them up a bit and then shove them in through that little hole to your
>greedy babies.
>Freudian slip alert. ;-))

Avert your eyes!
--

Martin

Des Higgins

2007-05-22, 5:25 pm

<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1179853079.598814.150560@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On May 21, 11:23 pm, "Des Higgins" <dazzhigg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> That's all very well Des Higgins but I would have resorted to Joy
> (Patou I think) if I had to. I feel I am rearing these chicks.
>
> I came home from the office this evening and what did I do? Did I run
> in and pour myself a glass of wine? Did I set the iicrowave for my
> Italian M & S supper, no I didn't. I went round to the back, without
> even opening the front door mind, and wonder of wonders, I can hear
> little chirping and little nails on the wooden floor of the box, they
> are alive so I won't have to bring them in yet to save them.

Ok ok ok; well done :-).
Birds in yer garden are special.

Des

Sacha

2007-05-22, 8:25 pm

On 22/5/07 22:38, in article 6pJ4i.19830$j7.373774@news.indigo.ie, "Des
Higgins" <dazzhiggins@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> <judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:1179853079.598814.150560@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Ok ok ok; well done :-).
> Birds in yer garden are special.
>
> Des
>
>
That's it exactly. They *are* special and I think so many of us become very
protective and personal about them. My reaction would be just the same as
Judith's - "what can I do to protect them?" I'd never make a nature film
camera operator. ;-(

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

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