Plastic netting killers

[Feral007]

We have white and black nylon netting that people put over their fruit trees, and birds do seem to get caught in them at times, so we won't use it.
Some people use it in lines and tie the tomato plants up to it, or whatever other plant. If it is left lying on the ground in a heap then snakes can get caught in it.

[Doive]

A few years ago I found a young sparrow caught in some netting I had at the bottom of the garden, it had obviously flown/landed in it, and became trapped by it's feet. Can't have been there long as I was working in the garden at the time. Gently picked it up, and with very careful use of scissors managed to free it, give it a quick once over for signs of injury, and release it. Since then I've been very careful where netting is used and stored. This year I've gone for thick pea netting, but behind a screen of very fine netting - so fine that it would be impossible for a bird to become trapped. My beds are 2ft off the ground, so hedgehogs are safe from it also.

[Feral007]

Mind you, I had just finished anew fence with son one day (3 plain wires far enough apart I woud have thought) and a roo got caught somehow, and twisted over and so was degloving it's leg. Had the wire cutters stil in the ute, so cut it out. Now we have one wire, and a plastic tape up high. The roo's go up to the wire, duck their head and continue on.