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Show Trees Attract Desired Birds TaATTVE BIRDS with their ' friendship and song are most attractive features of gardens. You can have them visiting your door almost the year 'round by planting a few trees and shrubs which attract at-tract them. Cherry trees are most attractive to birds when in fruit. Robins, catbirds, cat-birds, brown thrashers, orioles, scarlet tanagers, rose - breasted grosbeaks, kingbirds, towhees, flickers and sparrows all like cherries. cher-ries. The loss you may suffer in fruit is often compensated by the pleasures you will have from the feathered visitors. Some of the small fruited flowering flower-ing crabapples and hackberries yield abundant and acceptable bird food, especially for robins, in late fall. The mulberry attracts many birds. One tree expert counted 29 species of birds feeding on a single mulberry, among them bluebird, bob-white, flicker, bunting, cardinal, cardi-nal, catbird, chicadee, white-breasted white-breasted nuthatch, oriole, pheasant, pheas-ant, robin, songsparrows, woodpecker wood-pecker and a house wren. Berries of the flowering dogwood dog-wood and of the mountain ash furnish fur-nish food for robins and blackbirds in October. Of the evergreens, the blue colored berries of red cedar are eagerly sought by kinglets, warblers, chickadees, woodpeckers woodpeck-ers and other winter birds. Juneberry or shadbush, elder, buckthorn, chokeberry, European barberry and sumac also have fruit highly palatable to birds. Blackberries, blueberries and huckleberries are eagerly devoured de-voured by birds in the summer. Later in the fall such shrubs as viburnum, spicebush and euony-mus euony-mus contribute bird food. Barberry Bar-berry and sumac seeds are much valued for birds' winter diet. |