Re: Up the Ladder.

From: nuele (fowls_at_nuele-online.de)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:59:42 +0200

Martyn <bill@Microsoft.com> wrote:

> I had a couple of plastic eggs in the nest boxes, but of course the birds
> have never been in the nest boxes yet.
> I put the plastic eggs on the ground outside, just to show the birds, and
> all four birds attacked them !
> Very strange, I can't understand why !
>
> Martyn

Because eggs are yummy!
Seems they know what egg-eating can give them :-(

Nuele (D)

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