Beware Spider Eating Birds
I made big stick-tree display for the back yard with plastic spiders and webbing, about 6 feet tall and put it out about a week before Halloween. The day after I put it out, I noticed that some spiders had fallen off, thinking nothing of it I just whacked them back up. The next day I walked out and there was Leatherneck birds squawking about the tree, what the... so I watched them... flog up the plastic spiders...and then they stole my spider webbing for nests !!!
Buy the time it was Halloween I had 6 spiders left and no webbing in the stick tree, but there was snippets of fluff and the random spider in the neighbours tree.
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wow, never heard of that
wow, never heard of that before.
although i'd never heard of leatherneck birds either.
had to go to page 3 of google to get beyond all the copied definitions of the "sordid friar bird of Australia" to find http://birdsinbackyards.net/species/Philemon-corniculatus
I had the opposite problem - some real spiders getting close to my fake webs. it makes cleaning up kind of scary. there was a giant huntsman in my front garden i was trying to avoid.
cheers