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Garden Sculptures


Making Concrete Garden Ornaments

Sherri Warner Hunter (Paperback) Lark Books 2002-05-28

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ISBN13: 9781579903183
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Feeding garden birds?
Bird Sculpture

A pair of great t its have nested inside a concrete sculpture in my garden. They are busy feeding young at the moment. As I am only home some weekends I dont put out food for birds as I fear they become dependent on it and I'm not there often enough to top it up. My neighbour puts out peanuts for the birds all year round. I see my great t its are going next door to get nuts and are feeding these to their young. Are the chicks able to digest lumps of peanut?


Hi,im glad to hear you have great t1ts nesting in your garden,
but please dont give them chunks of peanuts,through a net or a wire feeders OK because they will only get tiny bits, a good help would be fat balls hung from a tree or post.click link below to see the birds in my garden.
http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/ edd3290/

2007-05-08 02:50:18 by Groid

Concrete Garden Statues Part 2


This is another small sample of some of the concrete ornaments we make. A lot of these statues still needed to be finished, seems cleaned up and ...


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