Paw Paw bed

Brown Thrasher, Photo Sally Horowitz 

 Birds like this area because Pawpaw trees attract insects sought by vireos, chickadees, warblers, and tanagers. Nuts attract Wild Turkey, American Crow, Blue Jay, and Red-bellied Woodpecker.

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Here are other reasons birds life this area:

• • Chestnut trees host insects needed by young birds

  • Hazelnut shrubs attract many insect types, providing necessary protein for many nestling and adult birds. Look for adult Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Blue Jays feeding on the nuts in the Fall.

  • Seeds of St. John’s Wort shrub persist through winter, attracting finches, sparrows, and other wintering seedeaters

  • Purple Thimbleberry shrubs are highly valued by songbirds for dense cover and soft berries during summer.

  • Low-growing Black Currant shrubs produce small berries valued by small birds, as well as Gray Catbird, American Robin, and Brown Thrasher.

• • • American Robin, Photo Ella Clem  

 Plant Species

    Asimina triloba            Common Pawpaw

    Castanea dentata       American Chestnut

    Fraxinus americana    White Ash

    Viburnum dentatum     Arrow-wood

    Rubus odoratus            Flowering Raspberry

    Cornus drummondii    Rough-leaved Dogwood

    Amelanchier                 Serviceberry

    Ribes                            gooseberry or currant

    Symphoricarpos albus  Common Snowberry

    Rhus aromatica            Fragrant Sumac

   Hypericum prolficum    Shrubby St. John's Wort

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