Great Post!!

Bird watching is a really great hobby, I also find it a great way to meditate, very close to nature. We have parrots outside and that provides a variety of food so we see all types of birds as well as squirrels.

It is important when you plant bushes/trees that bear fruit to try and alternate fruiting times.

This year we had a flock of Cedar Wax Wings take out the Mulberry crop, but it was fun watching them swoop in and out for the berries.

Interesting fact: if they eat to many of the berries it ferments in their crop and turns into alcohol. Then you have a bunch of drunk birds flying into windows and falling out of the trees.

When I was rehabbing I would get calls about disoriented bird flocks, upon questioning I would find out they had berry trees. People would be shocked to learn that the birds were drunk. Remedy for drunk birds, pick them all up, put them in a box, cover it and bring it in for the night, in the morning set the box out and release.

and don't forget to give him a nice cup O'JOe in the morning for that hangover.Did'nt know that about the berries. Good to know.