I agree with Danny Poet that the birds just love the berries in the
mulberry tree. For the past 2 days I have had a male Scarlet Tanager
eating mulberries and singing. Hope he sticks around.
I regularly see Downy and Red-bellied woodpeckers, Baltimore and Orchard
Orioles, mockingbirds, and cedar waxwings (although they disappeared once
the berries got ripe) eating mulberries.
I believe that the black mulberries are native. The white mulberries are
not. The birds eat them both.
The Indigo Bunting was not in the mulberry tree today. I caught it eating
the first ripe black raspberry this morning.
Jim Wilson
Queenstown |