| Re: Assisting dragonflies - any thoughts?
Well I think its ok to interfere and help stuff to have a life cos I measure the balence against how much is killed by being hit by cars ....... so to me its ok!
We also feed birds in the garden and elsewhere year round - it helps the parent birds if they can have a quick and nutritious top up before going off searching for live 'grub' to feed to their young ........ We have watched the sparrows picking off newly emerged damsels tho - which is upsetting - but some must get away with it. Us stopping feeding would'nt make any difference as we are a garden surrounded by gardens - so the birds would still be present and search around the pond whether we feed them or not. I haven't come up with any way of protecting the damsels and dragons that would leave them free to fly away when they are ready - so in this instance nature takes its course and better to have a pond than not have one .....
Pauline |