The thrushes around here will dine on Highbush Cranberries once pretty much everything else is gone.

Dennis Rockwell
Kennewick, WA
dennrockwell at surfbest.net
----- 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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