I had a huge elderberry crop up until last week. I noticed today that the plants are turning quickly brown and the unripe fruit is dropping to the ground. The mulberries produced very few fruit after our late frost, the blueberries died during the hot, dry wind of early summer.
Maybe those of us who feed the birds should step up the fruits and report back our observations? Joe Boone County On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Rick Hollis <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like the natural food crop is going to be poor heading into fall > and winter. > Not only are many of the dogwoods very heat stressed -- some look as bad as > much of the corn. And the dog wood fruit. > I looked at two umbels and found only 17 good berries, 1 rotten berry [looks > like a tomato with blossom end rot], and 31 fruitless stems. > > I suspect much of the other wild fruits and seeds will be the same. > > Rick Hollis > North Liberty IA > --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as > members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: > Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This > mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership > available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/PayDues.aspx. ----- You > are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected] --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/PayDues.aspx. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
