Simply Beautiful, Travis! Thank you - Kathryn Rudd Eagan Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 2, 2020, at 10:55 PM, PalmerLakeGuy <palmerlake...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have seen and photographed American Goldfinch eating hemp: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/palmerlakeguy2010/48772583756/in/album-72157679072868235/ > > Travis Bonovsky > Brooklyn Center, MN > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:58 PM <birdnir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> And there must be many versions of hemp. I have a wild version that is >> impossible to kill off. My great grandpa in Morrison County used to have a >> difficult time getting rid of his version so livestock wouldn’t get into >> it. Grandpa had to slash n burn. I at least have the advantage of weed >> killers. And I would guess what is being licensed to grow for CBD and other >> commercial use is different too. From my farm publications it is a variety >> that doesn’t produce the THC that is mind altering. It’s pretty strictly >> regulated. >> >> Back to bird feeding I’ve not seen birds taking seed from what we have >> here that’s wild. But then I try to burn it down before it seeds. I do have >> another invasive weed that I watched white throated sparrows feed on seeds >> yesterday. I’m just glad someone appreciates that noxious invasive. >> >> Charlene Nelson >> Grant County >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 2, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Jared Del Rosso <jared.delro...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Apparently, pigeons will eat hemp seeds. When the U.S. Congress first >> began >> criminalizing marijuana use in the late-1930s (first by issuing a tax on >> it, not actually criminalizing it), bird seed companies (at the last >> minute) tried to interject, seeking an exception for seed production for >> pigeons. They argued that the seeds were indispensible to the production of >> healthy squabs; other seeds "changed the character" of the bird. (My source >> is the sociologist Howard Becker's book *Outsiders: Studies in the >> Sociology of Deviance.)* >> >> - Jared Del Rosso >> Centennial, Colorado (formerly, part-time in St. Paul and Cloquet) >> >>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 1:18 PM Kathryn Rudd <katda...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Are the birds lounging about on the fallen leaves and giggling? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Oct 2, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Laura Erickson < >> chickadee.erick...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was one of the people in Carrol Henderson's study offering the hemp >>> seeds >>>> at my feeder in Duluth--didn't have any takers, either. But it's >> possible >>>> the difference is that the hemp seed in the experiment was "industrial >>>> hemp," not "psychoactive hemp." >>>> >>>> Best, Laura Erickson >>>> Duluth, MN >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:08 PM sparky stensaas < >>> sparkystens...@hotmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ha! This is exactly what Carrol Henderson was working on... >>>>> Hemp seeds were used as a bird seed many years ago. >>>>> Last year he had many of us test hemp seeds in our feeders to see if >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> >> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social >> distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. >> > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
