<p dir="ltr">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 <br>
Ron Post</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 1:06 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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Dennis Paulson<br>
Seattle<br>
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> On Oct 7, 2024, at 11:51 AM, Jim Betz via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi<br>
> <br>
> Now that the blackberry season is past - I was reflecting on the fact that, to the best of my<br>
> <br>
> knowledge, I've never seen a bird eating blackberries. I went to the web and looked it up<br>
> <br>
> and, according to the web, birds do eat blackberries. So why haven't I seen them doing this?<br>
> <br>
> In fact - my observation is that birds seem to avoid blackberry stands (as in, if there are<br>
> <br>
> other bushes nearby you are much more likely to see any birds there than in the blackberries).<br>
> <br>
> Are the blackberries on the East Coast different than here in the West? I even found<br>
> <br>
> pictures of birds "in the blackberries" (but did not see very many of them actually feeding<br>
> <br>
> on the blackberries).<br>
> <br>
> - Jim<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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