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Old 14-10-2020, 12:19 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jeff Layman[_2_] Jeff Layman[_2_] is offline
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Default Colour-blind birds?

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.

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Jeff