BERRIES 
Robin 
No bird enjoys greater popularity, or receives a 
heartier welcome in the spring than the American robin. 
His one iniquity, however, that of destroying quantities of 
luscious strawberries, cherries and other varieties of gar~ 
den fruit, has given him many enemies. Much of this loss 
would be prevented if wild fruits, such as mulberries, 
choke cherries and wild cherries were grown among the 
cultivated varieties, for all birds prefer the greater acid~ 
ity of uncultivated fruit. Robins are also very fond of 
sour gum, barberry, bayberry, mountain ash, red cedar, 
bush cranberry, dogwood, hackberry, juniper, buckthorn 
and elderberry. 
White-throated Sharrow 
The musical voice of the white-throat makes him 
an ever welcome visitor. He likes the fruit of mount- 
ain ash, barberry, black cherry, bush cranberry, dog~ 
wood, and elderberry, and both common and Japanese 
millet seed; if a copious supply of these is provided he 
may be induced to spend the winter months north of his 
usual winter range. 
Mockingbird 
The “Nightingale of America’ as he is sometimes 
called, feeds on the dried berries which cling to the 
branches of the holly, dogwood, smilax, Virginia creeper, 
black alder, juniper, barberry, buckthorn, elder, bitter- 
sweet and bayberry. Like the brown thrasher he seeks 
the protection of thickets and shrubbery. 
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