They Love Fruit! We Have Fruit.

Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbirds, Eastern Bluebirds, Northern Mockingbirds and several other fruit-loving species are plentiful here at our farm-gone-wild. I am guessing it’s in part due to the number and variety of wild Mulberry trees we have all around the property.

Mulberries berries don’t ripen all at one time, but rather throughout the season. That is a game-changer for birds that produce more than one brood of chicks per year. It’s not odd to see unripe, partially ripe and very ripe fruit on the same tree. This Mulberry tree was filmed on 6-10-25. The fruit will eventually ripen to a dark purple color.

Brown Thrasher

This first bird is perched in what I believe is a type of wild cherry tree. These fruits ripen in the autumn and I’ve seen various species eating them at that time.

There are two Brown Thrashers in this next photo. It looks to me that the bird in the lower, left corner is a juvenile. They are in a wild Mulberry tree that is full of fruits that will ripen soon.

Gray Catbird

This next photo is of the male Bluebird at House “E” that I filmed a couple days after capturing the pair building their nest.

Bluebirds are another fruit-loving species. All around our property, along with the Mulberries, there are wild raspberries developing, as well as these Elderberries that are now in bloom. The white flowers will turn to deep, purple berries in the Fall.

The Yellow-Breasted Chat that I filmed on 6-9-25 was perched in a wild Elderberry bush. Yellow-breasted Chats eat fruits, especially during the breeding season.