A toast to the "unhinged" for if every birder allowed 5% of his land to grow 
wild habitat for neotropic migrants would be increased dramatically.
I did this myself 2 years ago but this last year I thought myself capable of 
growing a garden which it turned out I wasn't..... so next year I plan to 
let that area grow wild again.

Will Leigh

>Georgia McDonald wrote:
>Our dogwood tree had a bumper crop of berries this
>year [clip] an evening feeding frenzy began that
>lasted for the next two hous...
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>I have an area that I have allowed to go wild and
>which has been taken over by pokeweed the last several
>years.  This food source has usually gone neglected
>until well into the winter months, but this year a
>family (?) of five mockers and more recently scores of
>robins have almost entirely depleted the pokeberries.
>Needless to say my neighbors think I’m unhinged :)
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>Jim Speicher
>jugornought—at—yahoo-dot-com
>Rockville @work :(
>Broad Run_S. FRED Co @home :)
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