Berries: Bird control you may not have considered

摘要

LAST spring and summer we noticed a pair of red-tailed hawks almost daily on our farm and came to realize they were nesting in a secluded small woodlot near an old pond nearby. As the blueberry season approached, we noted that one of the hawks would frequently perch on a power line wire that ran overhead of our main blueberry field. The old power line is no longer in service. In previous years, that line had served as a perch for starlings and also for songbirds before they invaded the blueberries.