"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"michael adams" wrote in message
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"TimW" wrote in message ...
I am involved in a project to put some small wooden structures like nesting boxes out
in some woodland. The Desire is that they should be 100% (or at least 99%)
biodegradable, so they last as long as poss but ultimately rot away to nothing. Fixing
them in trees with synthetic ropes or straps is therefore obviously a complete no-no.
So traditional rope is required.

Isn't this risking unwarrented distress, never mind cruellty to any adult birds and
nestlings who may find tjhemselves trapped in a nestbox which has plummeted
to ground as a result of a rope failing "prematurely"

Just as true of your wooden peg in the tree. That will likely fail before the box does.

Indeed. It's true of all wholly biodegradable solutions, potentially. Which
was rather my point.

It's just thst it took me three posts to finally arrive at that concluion,

Plus another one, having to explain it to people such as yourself, at the
back of the class.


michael adams

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