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Down here in southeast PA, not this winter but the previous several, a
Mockingbird claimed a Barberry hedge that runs between one of our gardens
and the road, and subsisted on the abundant berries all winter, or so I
assumed since near every time you'd go near it was on or around that hedge.
But i'd have to comb thru my notes to be able to say whether i saw it
actually eating many berries.
Dean, nr Leesport
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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of P.L. Chalmers
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:20 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] robins, Wolfville, eating barberry? berries, etc.
Jim, the robins must be really hungry. I have observed that barberry fruits
are rarely eaten.
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca >
Date: January 28, 2013 2:55:34 PM AST
To: Nature BNS < <mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>
nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>
Subject: [ValleyNature] robins, Wolfville, eating barberry? berries, etc.
JAN. 28, 2013 - Jake MacDonald phoned to say he counted 22 robins eating red
berries in a hedge, probably of barberry?, off lower Maple Ave. in Wolfville
(just south of Kenny's Market property, I think).
In our yard we again saw a couple of goldfinches and a single common
redpoll; the goldfinches were on one of the sunflower seed feeders. Every
day we have at least 2 cardinals and up to 3 flickers. Today there was also
a hairy woodpecker, plus the juncos, white-throated sparrows, song sparrows,
mourning doves, starlings, and another red squirrel (but no rats).
Concerning the latter mammals, I'm happy that our neighbourhood red-tailed
hawk often chooses to perch at the top of a pine the yard next-door to ours.
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.
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barberry?, off lower Maple Ave. in Wolfville (just south of Kenny's =
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