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["Mandy Hils" <ahils@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of Mulberry's I know they are a wild tree to Ky but short of
finding a small sapling and digging it up does anyone know where they can be
purchased?

Thank you
Mandy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joyce porter" <joycelporter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: [birdky] Mulberry tree


> Four or five yrs ago I noticed I had a new tree that had sprouted all on
its
> own. It was in a line of trees
> that serve as a screen between the front of the house and the highway. I
> recognized it as a Mulberry
> and decided to see if it would bear fruit. Since I try to manage for
> wildlife, my yard looks about half wild.
>
> Besides Chimney swifts which nest in the flue of one house there are
present
> other nesting birds such as Brown Thrasher,Gray Catbird, and those
> ubiquitous American Robins throughout the nesting season. Besides birds I
> have Goundhogs, Eastern Cottontails, Gray and Fox
> Squirrels,Chipmunks(which I don't manage for), voles and moles, and  an
> occasional Racoon.
>
> For three days running, I have watched a juvenile, speckle breasted Robin
> come to the tree and
> take a  ripe red fruit.These are huge mulberries . The young bird plucks
one
> off the tree, flies to the ground ,places the fruit on the ground  and
eats
> it a piece at a time. This juvenile is the only one
> I,ve seen feeding on the mulberries , I suspect the adults are grabbing a
> berry and flying off to eat it.
> Joyce Porter Falls of Rough, Ky.
>
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