1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,413 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:13,173 Speaker 1: from News Talks at b U. 3 00:00:13,293 --> 00:00:16,053 Speaker 2: Time passes our man in the garden. Good morning, sir, 4 00:00:17,093 --> 00:00:18,413 Speaker 2: A very good morning to you. 5 00:00:18,493 --> 00:00:20,853 Speaker 3: Jack. Do you also feed your birds? 6 00:00:21,173 --> 00:00:25,453 Speaker 2: Well, I feed my birds, but I pause over summer, 7 00:00:25,853 --> 00:00:27,613 Speaker 2: so I feed them through the winter because I'm like, oh, 8 00:00:27,613 --> 00:00:29,773 Speaker 2: there's not much food around, you know, and and the 9 00:00:29,973 --> 00:00:31,253 Speaker 2: birds got absolutely crazy. 10 00:00:31,333 --> 00:00:31,893 Speaker 3: You know, I have. 11 00:00:33,333 --> 00:00:36,213 Speaker 2: In my backyard. I have all the wax eyes, the 12 00:00:36,213 --> 00:00:37,653 Speaker 2: civil eyes, the tohoe as well. 13 00:00:38,373 --> 00:00:38,933 Speaker 1: But I have. 14 00:00:38,973 --> 00:00:44,853 Speaker 2: Paused since about November. I reckon and was that the 15 00:00:44,893 --> 00:00:45,853 Speaker 2: wrong thing to be doing. 16 00:00:46,733 --> 00:00:48,813 Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying it's the wrong thing. I've just 17 00:00:49,013 --> 00:00:53,213 Speaker 3: realized that you can actually get them to look after 18 00:00:53,293 --> 00:00:56,253 Speaker 3: your garden for the next winter, and by doing by 19 00:00:56,333 --> 00:01:00,573 Speaker 3: feeding them. Now, that's the interesting thing, because these guys 20 00:01:00,573 --> 00:01:04,853 Speaker 3: are really good at getting their you know, knowing who 21 00:01:04,933 --> 00:01:07,573 Speaker 3: does the feeding and who doesn't, and that means they 22 00:01:07,733 --> 00:01:11,493 Speaker 3: carry that over until winter, well into winter, which is good. 23 00:01:11,893 --> 00:01:14,293 Speaker 3: So normally what I used to do is do light 24 00:01:14,373 --> 00:01:18,253 Speaker 3: and fatty meat, you know, mad butcher type stuff, and 25 00:01:18,413 --> 00:01:20,933 Speaker 3: they love that. But what I've noticed now is that 26 00:01:21,053 --> 00:01:23,813 Speaker 3: if you give them sugar water on these things, and 27 00:01:23,853 --> 00:01:26,453 Speaker 3: I put a little little picture on the website. I'm 28 00:01:26,493 --> 00:01:30,293 Speaker 3: sure people look after that. If you do that, you'll 29 00:01:30,373 --> 00:01:33,413 Speaker 3: find that, oh my god, they know they are feeding 30 00:01:33,413 --> 00:01:36,813 Speaker 3: as really nice sweet stuff. So you don't have the 31 00:01:36,893 --> 00:01:39,773 Speaker 3: thousands that you normally would have in winter time, but 32 00:01:39,853 --> 00:01:42,693 Speaker 3: you do have the locals that are now starting to 33 00:01:43,293 --> 00:01:46,613 Speaker 3: settle again in our garden, and that's what they will 34 00:01:46,653 --> 00:01:51,373 Speaker 3: be doing until till until it becomes autumn and winter again. 35 00:01:51,413 --> 00:01:55,173 Speaker 2: Because my feeding I lean on the sugar water. You know, 36 00:01:55,213 --> 00:01:58,413 Speaker 2: I got the sugar water, which seems to work super well. 37 00:01:58,973 --> 00:02:01,653 Speaker 2: But if you like, you're not building up a reliance 38 00:02:01,693 --> 00:02:03,813 Speaker 2: on it, right, if they're if they're coming back, I 39 00:02:03,853 --> 00:02:06,493 Speaker 2: mean presumably that's still yeah, okay. 40 00:02:06,453 --> 00:02:09,773 Speaker 3: No, they just they just go like whoa. 41 00:02:10,253 --> 00:02:12,173 Speaker 2: That's always saying to me that I'm giving them diabetes. 42 00:02:13,333 --> 00:02:16,813 Speaker 3: No god, no, no, no, yeah, but. 43 00:02:17,053 --> 00:02:19,213 Speaker 2: I know exactly. That's what people say about coke, isn't 44 00:02:19,213 --> 00:02:19,693 Speaker 2: that You know that? 45 00:02:21,093 --> 00:02:24,213 Speaker 3: Yeah? I know, I know, I know. So so anyway, 46 00:02:24,253 --> 00:02:26,413 Speaker 3: so the cool thing is now that there's only and 47 00:02:26,413 --> 00:02:28,333 Speaker 3: it's not that many, it's two or three at the 48 00:02:28,413 --> 00:02:31,173 Speaker 3: time sort of thing. But they all come and have 49 00:02:31,293 --> 00:02:33,173 Speaker 3: and they go through and then they go find something 50 00:02:33,173 --> 00:02:35,613 Speaker 3: else and they come back again. And I know who's 51 00:02:35,653 --> 00:02:38,133 Speaker 3: all because I've bended quite a few of those silver 52 00:02:38,213 --> 00:02:40,733 Speaker 3: eyes with rings around them, so I know they're mine. 53 00:02:41,333 --> 00:02:44,813 Speaker 3: How do you catch up, oh, with a big net 54 00:02:44,893 --> 00:02:48,013 Speaker 3: within the missnet that is not actually I should I should, 55 00:02:48,053 --> 00:02:50,613 Speaker 3: I should do that. It's a site, it's side thing 56 00:02:50,653 --> 00:02:53,813 Speaker 3: at some stage. But anyway, so they come back time 57 00:02:53,853 --> 00:02:56,373 Speaker 3: and time again. And this is the cool thing. What 58 00:02:56,373 --> 00:02:59,013 Speaker 3: what happens then is And I've noticed that before, even 59 00:02:59,013 --> 00:03:01,653 Speaker 3: when I lived in Auckland, that once they know where 60 00:03:01,693 --> 00:03:05,373 Speaker 3: you live, they come and go through your garden and 61 00:03:05,413 --> 00:03:12,013 Speaker 3: then they pick up the following things aphorts, caterpillars, mealy bugs, 62 00:03:12,293 --> 00:03:15,973 Speaker 3: scale insects, all the stuff you don't want in your garden. 63 00:03:16,333 --> 00:03:20,693 Speaker 3: Yeah right, okay, And that really gives them a good 64 00:03:20,813 --> 00:03:24,613 Speaker 3: going here now. And that's not all again, I've got 65 00:03:24,613 --> 00:03:26,893 Speaker 3: some photo of that as well. You know, within a 66 00:03:27,013 --> 00:03:29,773 Speaker 3: day they've got half of them gone boom, just like that. 67 00:03:30,093 --> 00:03:34,973 Speaker 3: And that happens specifically in autumn and wintertime. But there's 68 00:03:35,013 --> 00:03:38,213 Speaker 3: another thing. I've also noticed that, for instance, stylings do 69 00:03:38,293 --> 00:03:41,133 Speaker 3: the same on my lawn because they go for a 70 00:03:41,173 --> 00:03:45,493 Speaker 3: perennial rye grass food called Pirrhina moth which most people 71 00:03:45,573 --> 00:03:49,173 Speaker 3: really hate as farmers, but boy they do the best 72 00:03:49,253 --> 00:03:50,613 Speaker 3: job in the world. 73 00:03:50,893 --> 00:03:54,533 Speaker 4: Keep them going very good. Okay, thanks for thanks. Yeah, 74 00:03:54,773 --> 00:03:56,533 Speaker 4: I have a good weekend, sir. We will catch you 75 00:03:56,573 --> 00:03:59,413 Speaker 4: again very soon. We Clipas and the Garden for us 76 00:03:59,453 --> 00:04:02,333 Speaker 4: this morning. I've just finished up when my first tomato 77 00:04:02,373 --> 00:04:05,373 Speaker 4: plants has done for the year. Just feels crazy, right, Well, 78 00:04:05,373 --> 00:04:06,253 Speaker 4: we've believing had. 79 00:04:06,133 --> 00:04:10,253 Speaker 1: A for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen 80 00:04:10,373 --> 00:04:13,173 Speaker 1: live to News Talks at B from nine am Saturday, 81 00:04:13,413 --> 00:04:15,453 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.