The black cherry tree outside our kitchen window is full of ripe fruit, and all the birds know about it.
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| Cedar waxwings travel in flocks and are favorites at trees with berries. The bird at right is a juvenile. |
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| A brown thrasher pulls at a cherry with its beak. |
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| Another look at the brown thrasher. |
Other visitors include a lot of robins (mostly juveniles), a catbird, and Carolina wrens. I'm sure there are others - most of the action is on the inaccessible back side of the tree.
Way back in 2014, I had a post about a black bear eating serviceberries in the next tree to the right, and trying to get to the unripe cherries:
https://srollinson.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-large-black-visitor.html.
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| Hawks (most likely red-shouldered) don't eat berries (or cherries), but our game camera caught this one swooping by. |
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