Yup everyone, I am fully aware of the toxicity of pokeweed and allow a nice big plant to grow up where I can see it fruit every year without any problems.
There are many berries toxic to humans out there. And toxic plants. But they feed birds and other wildlife. Pokeweed berries are especially used by birds around this time. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 26, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I understand Pokeweed is poisonous to humans. Your thoughts on keeping these > plants? > > Regi > > > What good is a house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it in? > Henry David Thoreau > >> On Oct 26, 2019, at 9:01 AM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> This morning I have a large number of robins all age/sexes foraging on my >> productive pokeweed berries and scratching leaves AND chasing each other >> hard and long. More athletic long chases than I am used to associating with >> robins. >> >> They are not just chasing around the berries although I watched some head >> lowered face offs ( before a chase) on the fence near pokeweed. >> >> Anne >> Sent from my iPhone >> -- >> >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html >> 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >> 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html >> >> Please submit your observations to eBird: >> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >> -- >> -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
