[Tweeters] Why don't we see birds on blackberries?

[Ron Post via Tweeters]

At the CUH in Seattle I have seen finches eat blackberries but not in
abundance. Also at times I have seen band tailed pigeons drop down to go
for lower branched  blackberries. I think many birds just won't bother with
them (invasive ones)  because of the thorns
Ron Post

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 1:06 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Jim, I have seen European Starlings and House Finches in some numbers in

> Armenian (Himalayan) Blackberry patches, and I assumed they were feeding on

> the berries.

>

> Dennis Paulson

> Seattle

>

> > On Oct 7, 2024, at 11:51 AM, Jim Betz via Tweeters <

> tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> >

> > Hi

> >

> >   Now that the blackberry season is past - I was reflecting on the fact

> that, to the best of my

> >

> > knowledge, I've never seen a bird eating blackberries.  I went to the

> web and looked it up

> >

> > and, according to the web, birds do eat blackberries.  So why haven't I

> seen them doing this?

> >

> > In fact - my observation is that birds seem to avoid blackberry stands

> (as in, if there are

> >

> > other bushes nearby you are much more likely to see any birds there than

> in the blackberries).

> >

> >   Are the blackberries on the East Coast different than here in the

> West?  I even found

> >

> > pictures of birds "in the blackberries" (but did not see very many of

> them actually feeding

> >

> > on the blackberries).

> >

> > - Jim

> >

> >

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