Racing Thrush came about a few years ago as an idea and was used for a while as a web name for genealogy research in to my family. The name derives from the first year in our current house after planting raspberry canes in the hope of getting fresh fruit straight from the garden.
The thrushes knew better!
Each morning at breakfast time we watched the thrushes and fledgling thrushes searching through the canes looking for the freshest fruit-each one acrobatically leaping a few feet off the ground and grabbing a piece of raspberry,consuming it and leaping for more.
If we wanted to pick the fruit before the birds we had to "Race Thrushes" and get there first. It has been ever thus- we still have to race thrushes, sometimes they win, sometimes we do.
I could cover the plants in netting, but I want the birds to enjoy the garden as much as I do, so it's a case of live and let live.
I could cover the plants in netting, but I want the birds to enjoy the garden as much as I do, so it's a case of live and let live.
We play the same game - now we have a name for it! We do net most of our fruit but one cage gives access to small birds so they can feast too.
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