It’s not so much that I begrudge the robins the occasional blueberry.
It’s just that for every ripe blueberry they peck at, they manage to
knock another 3 or 4 unripe blueberries to the ground. The expression
“waste not, want not” runs through my head.
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We were just today watching birds in the blackberry bush. They would poke at them until they fell on the ground and then pick them apart wtih their beaks. They were a bit more careful than yours.
Sounds like it, Linda. 🙂 One thing that I am still trying to figure out: the robins keep trying to eat our blueberries and the squirrels are having a field day this year in our apples, so why don’t any critters go for our raspberries, of which we have more than we can eat. The canes are thorn-less, after all. Perhaps they don’t know this? I’d love to leave a sign: “Blueberries and apples off limits, but help yourselves to the raspberries…”