Subject: Re: [Tweeters] a pure birder?


> I started with an interest in birds and then moved on to learning about
> native plants because after all that is what they eat. It is great to
plant
> a native garden so the birds do not have to rely on humans feeding them
all
> the time. And also to be more waterwise. Now I am thinking about learning
> more about butterflies and insects that also feed the birds. It is
> interesting to know that dragonflies migrate as well, then breed and the
> young migrate back here.
>
> Slugs, well I do not use pestisides but I do hand pick them and toss them
> into the woods. Birds eat slugs you know. My interest is not peaked
enough
> to learn more about them, but curiously, I was in Flora and Fauna Books
the
> other day and there was a man discussing his PHD thesis on the sex life of
> slugs. He was totally into it.
>
> Does anyone know, besides being food for birds, how slugs help our
> environment?
> Nancy Lander
>