Greensboro Birds

Add the blue-gray gnatcatcher to your list of birds that eat pokeweed berries. We’ve got several tall pokeweed plants in the garden and dozens edging the woods, and this past week saw jillions of gnatcatchers jostling for the ripening berries. They don’t seem as adept at recognizing the dark purple ripe berries, though, spending a [...]

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Short answer: Lots of them, and, no, you shouldn’t! There’s a lot of recent chatter about pokeweed on both the Carolinas birding list and the bluebird listserv. Probably because the berries and plant stalks are turning vivid purple and fuchsia right about now. Birders are asking which birds, if any, eat the juicy berries of [...]

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Pokeweed grows enthusiastically at the margins of our woods. When we cleared usable area and made paths, as well as thinned the trees and put up the fence, Josh and I were careful to preserve this area where we remembered the pokeweed growing when we moved in last fall. At that time, the berries were [...]

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