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From: rdmiller@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Ruth D Miller)
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Subject: Re: Do birds eat mulberries?
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Date: 24 May 91 15:45:38 GMT
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In article <5413@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>If birds eat mulberries, I leave alone the tree in my back yard.
>Otherwise, I'd be inclined to chop it down because it was
>planted exactly where you shouldn't plant one, next to a sidewalk.

Starlings eat mulberries.  Finches (of course) do not.  My husband says
chopping down the mulberry tree was the best thing his parents did to
attract songbirds: the starlings left and the other birds came to
feeders.  I don't know about other fruit eaters such as orioles though.

Ruth