Wildlife garden or not, seeing plants get hammered isn’t fun. Maybe you have a money tree in your garden so replacing lost/damaged plants isn’t an issue.
Unless you have the full background and picture to my life, I’d suggest keeping your petty comments to yourself.
Likewise yourself.
Stop being so miserable and learn to work with nature and live in harmony with it, not against it. I can show you pics of rabbit holes in newly formed and planted borders, piles of sticks thrown on top of them by Jackdaws, headless flowers, new trees stripped bare by sheep, they even ate the tips from a small Monkey puzzle tree - go see how much they cost. Likewise new apple trees pushed over and branches snapped off. No I can't afford these losses.
They're simple creatures just looking for food in their land. That's the land you tried to take from them and stick a house and garden there. You should be able to live in harmony with them.
When complaining always draw a comparison. If a person had gone into your garden and trashed it how would you feel then? A damn site worse and then you'd really have something to moan about.
So in light of that then yes, having a Blackbird peck around is actually fun. I would gain pleasure from seeing it as I do all the animals around us finding food and nesting material. I didn't get mad at the sheep stripping the trees, it was quite amusing. I just acted accordingly and we had lamb for dinner by fencing off and letting the trees recuperate, which they are doing.
I'd rather take on mother nature than human nature any day. One has an innocence to it, the other has malice.
Wow. You’re clueless, you have no idea on my principles or what I actually do for the natural world - I’m 100% confident it’s a dam lot more than you do! Without giving too much away, have you ever discovered new species of insect and described them?? Well I have and I persuade local authorities to change their habitat management regimes to help preserve them and all the other biodiversity present so don’t you dare tell me to learn to live with nature, not against it.
"This is my first post here and a newcomer to gardening.
Last summer, we turned our awful lawn into a wildlife friendly garden. The past few weeks, blackbirds are causing me so much stress. They are digging right into every planting hole, exposing the roots of many plants (I never knew they could did so deep!), damaging the new growth of several perennials etc. It is so disheartening to wake up each morning so see the carnage.
I am making some chicken wire cages to go around each plant so hopefully that will stop them but my question is will they continue to cause this damage all year or is it just a spring thing as they never touched the plants during last summer?"
It taught me quite a bit about you, yet now you're a wildlife and gardening expert?
Lol at your 100% confidence in someone you know nothing about
Get over yourself, it's a forum, go research what that means.
Where have I said I’m a gardening or wildlife expert!?
That post you quote was indeed my first post and up until that point, I had never even had a garden - if that post taught you a lot about me then you must be some kind of genius.
To get back on topic, though not strictly a Blackbird, those little hooligan Starlings that have been terrorising my Marigolds seem to have calmed down a bit, which is good.
It didn't teach me a lot about you, I never said it did. You're actually posting things up then denying them when they're still there in print, in black and white.
'Hello I'm 'Wildlifelover', I get stressed about Blackbirds in my garden.'
“It taught me quite a bit about you, yet now you're a wildlife and gardening expert?” - see you l your penultimate post. Ok then, if you want to be pedantic, what did my post ‘teach’ you about me?
What am I suppose to be denying? Please show me where I have said I don’t like blackbirds?
You never showed me where I’ve said I’m wildlife and garden expert - please do bring that to my attention.
This guy just jumped into the thread with his sarcastic comment when he clearly has missed the point of the original post!
Clearly other users feel he’s missed the point too.
FWIW, I am a wildlife lover, which includes plants. Not once have I said I want to rid the blackbirds from the garden, all I’ve said is they stress me out when I spend time and money on plants (which are all purchased for invertebrates) then they come along and rip them up. Different people are stressed by different things. The wood pigeons wind me up as they steal all the food I put out (which includes food for the blackbirds).
Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word stress in the original post he quotes - maybe then all this could have been avoided.
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Stop being so miserable and learn to work with nature and live in harmony with it, not against it. I can show you pics of rabbit holes in newly formed and planted borders, piles of sticks thrown on top of them by Jackdaws, headless flowers, new trees stripped bare by sheep, they even ate the tips from a small Monkey puzzle tree - go see how much they cost. Likewise new apple trees pushed over and branches snapped off. No I can't afford these losses.
They're simple creatures just looking for food in their land. That's the land you tried to take from them and stick a house and garden there. You should be able to live in harmony with them.
When complaining always draw a comparison. If a person had gone into your garden and trashed it how would you feel then? A damn site worse and then you'd really have something to moan about.
So in light of that then yes, having a Blackbird peck around is actually fun. I would gain pleasure from seeing it as I do all the animals around us finding food and nesting material.
I didn't get mad at the sheep stripping the trees, it was quite amusing. I just acted accordingly and we had lamb for dinner by fencing off and letting the trees recuperate, which they are doing.
I'd rather take on mother nature than human nature any day.
One has an innocence to it, the other has malice.
"This is my first post here and a newcomer to gardening.
Last summer, we turned our awful lawn into a wildlife friendly garden. The past few weeks, blackbirds are causing me so much stress. They are digging right into every planting hole, exposing the roots of many plants (I never knew they could did so deep!), damaging the new growth of several perennials etc. It is so disheartening to wake up each morning so see the carnage.
I am making some chicken wire cages to go around each plant so hopefully that will stop them but my question is will they continue to cause this damage all year or is it just a spring thing as they never touched the plants during last summer?"
It taught me quite a bit about you, yet now you're a wildlife and gardening expert?
Lol at your 100% confidence in someone you know nothing about
Get over yourself, it's a forum, go research what that means.
You're actually posting things up then denying them when they're still there in print, in black and white.
'Hello I'm 'Wildlifelover', I get stressed about Blackbirds in my garden.'
Ok.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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You never showed me where I’ve said I’m wildlife and garden expert - please do bring that to my attention.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
FWIW, I am a wildlife lover, which includes plants. Not once have I said I want to rid the blackbirds from the garden, all I’ve said is they stress me out when I spend time and money on plants (which are all purchased for invertebrates) then they come along and rip them up. Different people are stressed by different things. The wood pigeons wind me up as they steal all the food I put out (which includes food for the blackbirds).