12/8/06

To add to the snowberry file, I still vividly remember seeing my first good look at Purple Finches, that were feeding on snowberries outside our kitchen window in Madison, Wisconsin in the late 1940's.

Somewhere I read that snowberries require aging before they are acceptable to birds; making for a late winter food. Maybe they have a little alcohol in them by late winter?

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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