Date: 8/15/25 12:47 am From: Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Blackberries?
Most finches and sparrows like to feed on dried blackberries in the winter
months.
Hans
On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM Matt Bartels via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> Jim -
> Did’t you ask the same question a couple years back? I recall a lively
> list of responses that time too
>
> > On Aug 14, 2025, at 2:30 PM, Jim Betz via Tweeters <
> <tweeters...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Question - has anyone ever seen a bird feeding on blackberries? What
> bird(s)?
> >
> > - Jim in Skagit (where the blackberries are coming
> ripe)
>
> > On Oct 7, 2024, at 11:51 AM, Jim Betz via Tweeters <
> <tweeters...> 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
>
> Matt Bartels
> Seattle, WA
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