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Originally Posted by ABE COCHRAN
Are mockingbirds more beneficial vs detrimental around berry vines and fig trees? As much time as I see them around my tree and berry vines I'm wondering if they're after bugs more than they are the fruit. The blackberries disappear when they're around. It's always the RIPE figs that have bird pecks on them but the figs aren't always completely eaten. Do you think they are actually eating the figs or just pecking insects off of them?
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Interesting question. All I know is I hate it how they peck once or twice and leave them for another.
We had lived in Spring and had a fig tree and an abundance of mockingbirds.Our figs were always pecked.We have since moved to Crockett and have a fig tree with few Mockingbirds in the area. We have not had one pecked fig to date? That convinces me that the Mockingbird is the primary culprit!
I always thouht the bids looked at it as a smorgasboard. Try a little of this and a little of that
