Subject: [Tweeters] follow-up on berry interesting
Date: Dec 4 20:50:44 2006
From: Guttman,Burton - GuttmanB at evergreen.edu


Dennis, you wrote: "What I really wanted to know was how many yards have native plants that fruit-eating birds are visiting." We have several madrones in our yard and the neighboring yards, just outside Lacey, and as I've reported during a couple of autumns, we sometimes have what I call feeding frenzies with robins, starlings, maybe band-tailed pigeons, and probably some other birds going crazy here--feeding, flying hither and yon, and making a helluva racket. The madrone berries are clearly one center of attention, along with some mountain ash berries.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503