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Soizic Wrote:

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> Any tricks to stop these handsome hooligans from

> raiding my bird feeder? The poor native birds

> don't get a look in anymore!...


Our bird feeder is about 7m away from our rear window and the parakeets never come to it even though ther's lots of them in the tree 25m away. We get lots of natives coming. So it might be something to do with proximity to your house.

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why are parakeets, which over-winter in this country, denounced as entitled foreign scum, while the smaller birds are referred to as 'natives'? many of whom are actually migrants e.g. blackbirds, fieldfares etc

shades of birdy Windrush...


inter-bird bullying is done by the pigeons and doves in our garden

the poor smaller birds wait their turn, and then of course the squirrels turn up and jump the queue!

I just cave in and put out more bird seed and suet...

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civilservant Wrote:

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> why are parakeets, which over-winter in this

> country, denounced as entitled foreign scum, while

> the smaller birds are referred to as 'natives'?

> many of whom are actually migrants e.g.

> blackbirds, fieldfares etc

> shades of birdy Windrush...

>

Blackbirds do not migrate.

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civilservant Wrote:

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> i do hope that you emphasise to your students the

> importance of digesting a source before quoting

> it, uncleG


I like to quote the Guardian (although I don't read papers myself anymore) because I know that EDFers on the whole prefer it....

my teaching does not involve sources

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i was pointing out to the OP that some so-called 'native' birds are actually migrants - unlike parakeets which are now a settled species in this country, (also grey squirrels, rabbits, chestnut trees, sycamores and any number of garden plants - all introduced, but now part of the 'native' furniture)


in the process, i seem to have outed uncleglen as a peddler of fake news

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civilservant Wrote:

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> i was pointing out to the OP that some so-called

> 'native' birds are actually migrants - unlike

> parakeets which are now a settled species in this

> country, (also grey squirrels, rabbits, chestnut

> trees, sycamores and any number of garden plants -

> all introduced, but now part of the 'native'

> furniture)

>

> in the process, i seem to have outed uncleglen as

> a peddler of fake news


Haha

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Sally Eva Wrote:

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> https://www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/parakeet-proof-cag

> e/

>

> parakeet proof bird feeder


That's a an amazing price. I think I will look at making something similar at about half the price. Would anybody be interested in one


Tom

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