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Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me
by ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Charles Bishop)
May 10, 2008 at 02:01 PM
| In article <Xns9A9A87A394C62moonblanchedgmailcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Dover Beach
<moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>in news:n3rb24lf67752k8q77svsnrtqmp5p8cuss@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> OK, in fairness I have to add they sell all kinds of bird feed,
>> including the "wasteless" shelled seeds and nuts version that I
>> bought.
>>
>
>Birdseed anecdote: My mother was big on feeding the birds and had a
>birdfeeder and a hummingbird feeder. In 4th grade we were studying
>Africa, and whatever country I was studying -- I think it was Nigeria --
>ate a diet heavy on millet. I noticed that the birdseed was mostly
>millet so I planted some in my sandbox (I was too old to play in the
>sandbox by then but the sandbox hadn't been removed yet.) I watered it
>regularly and pretty soon I had a lot of millet sprouts. So I carefully
>transplanted the millet sprouts into a pot and then took some more
>birdseed and ground it up and baked it into something breadlike. When
>it was time for me to do my re****t I brought in my sprouted millet and
>the millet-bread (which wasn't entirely inedible, but wasn't exactly
>tasty; I'm not sure where I came up with the recipe.) I got a good
>grade even though I'm not sure if I really learned anything about
>Nigeria. But I can tell you this: In 1969, commercial birdseed was
>mostly millet.
Something else ate millet too. Around that time I was working in my
parents' feed and grocery store and had to hump 100# bags of the stuff.
Little round seed if I remember correctly. Also chicken scratch, bran,
corn, more stuff that I don't remember, and 3 wire hay bales.
--
charles


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