[NatureNS] Sunflower seeds

Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:15:04 -0400
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I hesitate to add to this discussion given the lack of any controlled experiment
on the issue, but I did note last year that my black sunflower seeds that had
been kept over from a previous year, and possibly two, were not much used by
visitng birds until I replaced then with fresh stock.  I don't know why they
were rejected - no evident mould, e.g. - but maybe they had lost volatile
lipids or become a little rancid.

I wonder if suppliers/dealers sometimes market old stock. I don't like the wide
over-application of pesticdes, but everything I have read suggests that
Roubndup and the like are unlikely to be detected by or hazardous to
seed-eating birds.

Cheers, Ian McLaren

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