birds ATE it.
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
October 5, 2018 9:33pm CST
It is a sunny Saturday today, my fellow users, how is everyone?
The guava that I am closely watching to ripen so I can eat it, is slowly eaten by birds during daytime and bats at night. The guava tree is put up after the typhoon that hit us last month. It bears many fruits and the guavas are ripening one at a time.
This guava caught my eye yesterday. I did not seal it with a plastic bag because it was too high to reach. I just hoped the bats and birds will ignore it.
Alas! The fruit is nearly consumed now. My shoulders drooped this morning. I hoped to enjoy eating the guava dipped in white vinegar and sprinkled with salt. I guess the fruit is not mine but for the birds and the bats.
It would be a joy watching a bird nibbling its flesh and meat. It would be a nice picture to shoot.
Do you have pictures of birds that are eating fruits?
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7 responses
@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
I remember the story of "Juana Tamad" right there. Just kidding! It happens.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
oh no. why Juan Tamad? i was not that lazy opening my mouth waiting for the fruit to fall while lying under the tree.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
@ridingbet I'm just kidding right there... Maybe because of the bird that ate first the guava...
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
@simplfred i know. i was just kidding too.
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@LadyDuck (502391)
• Italy
7 Oct 18
@ridingbet The birds fight a lot over food. They are now eating the red berries of my holly tree.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Oct 18
it is wonderful to see the birds trying to take bites from the fruits hanging still in the trees. i sometimes witness small birds with long bills 'fighting' each other to have the bigger bite.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Oct 18
@LadyDuck i guess birds too do fight over anything that they catch attention to, even with worms, insects, and water. the berries, are they raspberries?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
the crocodiles, were they being fed with live chicken or meat?
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
6 Oct 18
@ridingbet
I didn't see them they are feed.
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I have no fruit tree here.@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Oct 18
@Courage7 maybe those fruits are no locally picked from their garden? maybe too, the fruits are sprayed with insecticides?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Oct 18
we have the guava tree and sweetsop or sugar apple tree. the fruits are almost consumed already.
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@Courage7 (19626)
• United States
7 Oct 18
@ridingbet So good for you too.I have to store bought fruit and it is not so great.
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Better luck next time.@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
really? for me, we used to climb Indian mango trees, pluck one fruit, and eat it while still up in the branch of the tree.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Oct 18
@ZedSmart really? the sap burnt your nose? i thought it will itch the skin and cause rashes.
the constipation happens when i intentionally swallow the seeds of the santol.
@ZedSmart (19839)
• Philippines
6 Oct 18
@ridingbet I did at mango tree as well even at early morning. I could remember that I'd gotten burn at my nose because of the sap of the newly pick fruit.
Never such worry of the constipation after.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
26 Nov 18
@ridingbet
So do the birds and bats eat all of it and nothing left at all for you? Is there something that can be done so they cannot eat it and you can?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Nov 18
they don't eat all. maybe they just want a taste of the fruits
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