Have any of you gardening Agnostics who raise strawberries every seen robins eating the small ripe ones? We've noticed this phenomenon this year. Never seen it before. They're fledglings. It's driving one cat and the wife crazy (she likes making strawberry jam).
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.As far as I can tell, everything eats strawberries. I just try to grow so many, that they all get stomach aches and leave the rest for me
CraeftSmith
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May 29, 2018
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Our strategy, exactly.
I don't have robins, I have little English sparrows. They take off in clouds when I walk outside, strawberries, mulberries, blueberries, raspberries, they attack them all as well as most seedlings.
Rugglesby
Level 8
May 29, 2018
2
Yikes!
Chronic problem! Actually, I couldn't swear it was robins as I don't see them doing it but the evidence is clear. The strawberry bed is 18" above ground so ground critters like turtles can't get to it. The very annoying aspect of it is the birds will pick a dog chunk out of one then move to the next and pick a big chunk out of it so they ruin all the fruit rather than just eating one. This year I put a (rather makeshift) cover of silkscreen over the bed, hoping I might get more than a few berries.
DotLewis
Level 7
May 29, 2018
4
I only have a hanging basket of strawberries, and the birds and I share them.
GoldenDoll
Level 7
May 29, 2018
2
We grow enough that sharing isn't a problem. More than enough for all of us. I'd just never seen a half grown Robin eat an entire strawberry. Guess he missed the "we eat worms" class.
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