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Meret, This sounds like a great project for a boyscout troop or for people sentenced to do community service. Wes Biggs Orlando Meret Wilson wrote: > After years of excellent control of the B. peppers at > Tomoka State Park, it got hopeless and out of control > following the hurricanes and the huge influx of robins > last year. And, there is no state money for putting > anyone salaried to carry out the once effective > project. I do the same, pull them up when and where I > can but they grow fast and are into areas that are > impossible to get to. Birds will continue to spread > the peppers so I don't hold much hope for eradicating > them any longer. Good luck over there!!! > > Meret Wilson > Ormond > --- Lee Snyder <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> Hey y'all, >> >> With the arrival of our first trickle of spring >> migrants, we can officially >> claim spring is in full swing. That means the >> frugivores have consumed the >> winter's Brazilian pepper crop and made their >> appropriate seed deposits. >> >> The park-like manicure of the area we refer to as >> "the mulberry tree" on >> Mullet Key has been left to go wild. It may take a >> little getting used to >> but already the birds seem to be enjoying it with a >> good flock of Palms and >> Yellow-rumps I watched a couple of weeks ago >> covering the out-of-control >> Bermuda grass. I'm willing to bet the buntings and >> grosbeaks will be thick >> there in a couple of weeks. >> >> I also noticed a scattered collection of young >> Brazilian pepper saplings >> between three inches and three feet tall were >> beginning to make themselves >> obvious. The thought of an impenetrable tangle of >> mature bushes inside of >> a year made me shiver. I began pulling them up by >> the roots until I was >> satisfied I had reclaimed enough of the area to >> continue birding. >> >> I was back there last weekend and believe I am not >> the only one hoping to >> eliminate the trees before they become a problem. >> While a few new saplings >> had sprouted, for the most part there were few >> peppers and lots of salt bush >> dotting the field. >> >> I stopped at the ranger station and spoke with the >> two guys on duty who >> encouraged me to keep pulling the insidious devils >> wherever I find them. >> With that endorsement I asked if I could post a note >> to the other birders >> who enjoy the area and was told they would welcome >> the assist. It seems the >> park personnel are already working on controlling >> several other >> things--tourists, racoons, Australian pines and a >> lone coyote! >> >> On the way home I was going over what one of the >> rangers said about how it >> might be impossible to keep the peppers out of the >> area and then quickly >> added, "but if there are enough of you, I suppose >> you can pull them up >> faster than they can grow." >> >> Let's hope so. >> >> Regards, >> Lee Snyder >> St Petersburg >> >> >> > ____________________________________________________________________________ > >> FLORIDABIRDS-L Listserv mailing list information: >> Member photos I: >> http://bkpass.tripod.com/floridabirds.htm >> Member photos II: see connection on photos I >> For archives: >> http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/floridabirds-l.html >> Set nomail: [log in to unmask] Message: Set >> floridabirds-L nomail >> Listowner: [log in to unmask] >> >> > > > Meret S Wilson > Ormond Beach, FL > TBBS, Tomoka State Park > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > FLORIDABIRDS-L Listserv mailing list information: > Member photos I: http://bkpass.tripod.com/floridabirds.htm > Member photos II: see connection on photos I > For archives: http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/floridabirds-l.html > Set nomail: [log in to unmask] Message: Set floridabirds-L nomail > Listowner: [log in to unmask] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ FLORIDABIRDS-L Listserv mailing list information: Member photos I: http://bkpass.tripod.com/floridabirds.htm Member photos II: see connection on photos I For archives: http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/floridabirds-l.html Set nomail: [log in to unmask] Message: Set floridabirds-L nomail Listowner: [log in to unmask]