Simply Beautiful, Travis!
Thank you - Kathryn Rudd Eagan
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> On Oct 2, 2020, at 10:55 PM, PalmerLakeGuy 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 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
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>> On Oct 2, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Jared Del Rosso
>> 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
>> 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
>>
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