tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520550981979813852.post8474941939821526828..comments2024-02-20T14:16:00.847+02:00Comments on Stories from Blue Hill Escape: Beauties of the Bird FeederBlue Hill Escapehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05912225427352158178noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520550981979813852.post-26891880230240940602013-07-13T18:11:52.701+02:002013-07-13T18:11:52.701+02:00Hi Diana, I admire your gardening efforts - mine f...Hi Diana, I admire your gardening efforts - mine fall some way short. Cape Weavers and Streaky-headed Seedeaters can be very destructive feeders, and it isn't good for the reproductive ecology of the plants of course. Or for the sunbirds. That's competition for you - doesn't always seem that fair.Blue Hill Escapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05912225427352158178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520550981979813852.post-27255315273956187992013-07-10T23:54:43.927+02:002013-07-10T23:54:43.927+02:00No sugar water feeders in our garden, but flowers ...No sugar water feeders in our garden, but flowers for the sunbirds and weavers. The weavers seem to rip off the flowers, since they can't get into the trumpets of the aloes and Cotyledon orbiculata. How does that work for the ecological relationship between birds and flowers? The sunbirds could come back tomorrow and feed from the flowers. The weavers want it ALL, NOW!Diana Studerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286066768376135880noreply@blogger.com