Hello Dennis and Tweeters,

This is a good question you ask here.To what expense birders are going to cater to our birds summer and winter.We completely converted our whole yard for wildlife feeding the birds. And it paid off big time We having a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary certificate issued in April 1992 from the Washington Department of Wildlife.There provided us with the list of birds in the city and suburbs,and what native plants we should planning.
We have as you also added the non native plants like the Pyracantha ,Yew trees, and cotonyaester.
But we planted many native plants what included Sitka Mountain Ash 2,Red Huckleberry, Evergreen Huckleberry 4, Salal 4, Kinnikinic partly in some place,tall Oregon Grape, 2
Red Elderberry 1,rarely any fruit,not to mention all the many Red flowering Currant.We also throwing Apples out for the Thrushes.As I mention earlier we here in Fircrest having high count on Varied Thrushes some year up to 18 bird counted The other day we had 15 Robins feeding in the Pyracanta & Cotoneaster.The berries from our 4 yew trees are long going.Interesting with Robins that most of the birds coming one day and going the next ,as the Varied Thrushes staying around.We also had chickadees picking on the apples.


Cheers Ruth Sullivan

----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Paulson
To: Tweeters
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 4:24 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] berry interesting


I wonder what the robins would have been eating 100 years ago. The ones in my yard are scarfing down cotoneaster and yew berries, neither of them native. I don't know of anything in the neighborhood that would feed them now, and I don't suppose there would be any around here (the worms are shivering deep underground). If you subtract all the exotic berry-bearing trees and shrubs planted in towns, the Pacific Northwest might not be able to support very many fruit eaters in winter. How many people have robins or Varied Thrushes feeding on native fruits around their houses?
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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net









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