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14-10-2020, 03:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jim S
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Colour-blind birds?
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On 14/10/2020 11:33, Andy Burns wrote:
My holly bush is having a bumper year for berries, but the birds don't
seem to have noticed, have they all gone colour-blind?
It seems to me that birds avoid many "hard" berries until other food is
in short supply. By hard berries I mean fruits from holly, hawthorn,
pyracantha, etc. I assume such berries are less palatable and/or less
nutritious than soft fruits.
My pyracantha never gets touched unless everything is frozen, which BTW
has not happened for a few years here on Tyneside.
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