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30-05-2009, 07:41 PM
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| | | Holly tree berries?
Would birds eat them? I've been wondering this for some time now.
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30-05-2009, 07:54 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
I had a lone Redwing last winter eating the berries on a small (ish) Holly tree I have in my garden! It hung around for a few days until it had almost depleted the berries! I was pretty chuffed I can tell you!  |
30-05-2009, 07:56 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
Ooooh Yeah. Thrushes love 'em.
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30-05-2009, 07:58 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
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Originally Posted by Pam_M  I had a lone Redwing last winter eating the berries on a small (ish) Holly tree I have in my garden! It hung around for a few days until it had almost depleted the berries! I was pretty chuffed I can tell you! | Sounds promising  . Seeing as my holly tree is out in my front garden would it be appropriate to pick the berries and put them in a feeder when they grow? |
30-05-2009, 07:58 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
Thrushes and Redwings can quickly strip a Holly tree bare in jig time. 
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30-05-2009, 08:00 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
They do, but I found that my mistle thrushes prefer rowan, hawthorn and various other garden bushes first, only coming to my holly when all else had been used up later in the year!
pecking order for berries then!
Ken
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30-05-2009, 08:05 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
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Originally Posted by HanDiiMaNz Sounds promising . Seeing as my holly tree is out in my front garden would it be appropriate to pick the berries and put them in a feeder when they grow? | My advice would be to leave them on the tree, I would imagine the berries would shrivel up very quickly if you picked them! Besides let the birds find them themselves, we can't make life too easy for them! Seriously, leave them on the tree and sit back and wait for the birds to arrive and enjoy viewing the birds, that's what I do! |
30-05-2009, 08:08 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
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Originally Posted by HanDiiMaNz Sounds promising . Seeing as my holly tree is out in my front garden would it be appropriate to pick the berries and put them in a feeder when they grow? |
No, leave it to nature. Have a bit of patience as they may last well into spring. Meanwhile just enjoy the colour. |
30-05-2009, 08:08 PM
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| | | Re: Holly tree berries?
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Originally Posted by Pam_M My advice would be to leave them on the tree, I would imagine the berries would shrivel up very quickly if you picked them! Besides let the birds find them themselves, we can't make life too easy for them! Seriously, leave them on the tree and sit back and wait for the birds to arrive and enjoy viewing the birds, that's what I do! | Yeah, i suppose . Although, i've had this tree for many years and i always hear the birds cherping away inside but year after year the berries on the outside of the bush never seem to get eaten. Maybe this is because i don't have the birds that eat these berries in my area? |
30-05-2009, 08:11 PM
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I wish I could type quicker, then it wouldn't look like I was just copying Pam | | | |
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