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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: thouc on July 19, 2008, 06:01:04 PM

Title: Red-bellied Woodpecker and more
Post by: thouc on July 19, 2008, 06:01:04 PM

In a tree with berries (Don't know what kind, looks a bit like blackberries but they don't grow on trees, do they? They are whitish, but I think they get dark when they ripen, but you don't find many ripe ones as the birds are too quick to snatch them) I have had plenty of birds.
The best is two (a pair?) of Red-bellied Woodpeckers. Other visitors have been a young male Red-breasted Grosbeak (and another one found dead), a family of Baltimore Orioles, a family of House Finches, a Downy Woodpecker and American Goldfinches, Northern Cardinals, Common Grackles, Chipping Sparrows, American Robins, European Starlings, House Sparrows and a Racoon family.

/Thomas

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Post by: GStuart on July 20, 2008, 01:24:24 PM

Nice finds.

Could the tree have been a mulberry?

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Post by: frozenice7885 on July 20, 2008, 03:08:39 PM

it is a blackberry i have one in my backyard and the robins and raccoons love it

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Post by: Dr. John on July 20, 2008, 07:11:20 PM

If it is a tree, then it is probably a mulberry. Mulberries look like blackberries, but taste a bit different and have smaller seeds. They have been fruiting over the past couple of weeks, so the timing is right. The one just adjacent to our backyard also attracts just about every living thing in the neighbourhood.

-John

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Post by: thouc on July 21, 2008, 09:54:24 AM

It's a big tree, so it should be a mulberry tree then. Thanks for your info.

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Post by: frozenice7885 on July 23, 2008, 01:00:57 AM

My mistake it is a mulberry tree lol