For the record, don’t try this at home! Poke berries are very toxic to humans and many other mammals though some foxes, mice,etc are resistant, as are many songbirds that distribute the seeds after ingestion. Make sure your kids do NOT ingest these. Poke leaves are made edible only after three separate boilings in fresh water. See wiki for details.
_______________ Chris Pelkie Data Manager; IT Support Center for Conservation Bioacoustics Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road<x-apple-data-detectors://1> Ithaca, NY 14850<x-apple-data-detectors://1> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/ On Oct 26, 2019, at 09:00, "anneb.cl...@gmail.com<mailto:anneb.cl...@gmail.com>" <anneb.cl...@gmail.com<mailto:anneb.cl...@gmail.com>> wrote: This morning I have a large number of robins all age/sexes foraging on my productive pokeweed berries and scratching leaves AND chasing each other hard and long. More athletic long chases than I am used to associating with robins. They are not just chasing around the berries although I watched some head lowered face offs ( before a chase) on the fence near pokeweed. Anne Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
