Pyracanth Berries, The Birds Don't Seem Very Interested in Them at The Moment

Maybe the birds eat the red berries first... save the yellow till later...:o)

Strange you should say that, TT, most of my yellow berries have gone but all the red ones have been left alone! Perhaps birds in different areas have different tastes :)

I was joking above... but just got this info. off a website ~

Pyracantha (Firethorn) :red, orange or yellow berries - choose red for the birds to eat before Christmas usually with orange or yellow to follow in a hard winter.

Simples :o)

Even odder, TT. A couple of years ago my red berried bush (in the front garden) was laden with berries. In the spring when it should be flowering the berries were still there. I didn't know what to do but eventually much later in the year I cut the bush hard back complete with berries still! I wonder if it means, if the birds don't eat them before the C*******s season, they won't eat them at all?

I reckon there are all sorts of old wives' tales written about berries and their colours...

Here's an olde worlde saying.... been around for years...

Red berries on ye olde bush in May
Means Gee will chop it back today...Lol.

Sorry... tired... that's the best poem I can write. :o)

Perhaps they fore tell the weather on what it will be by eating certain things like the nest s of crows fore tells the summer on if they build them high in the tree s or low.

Yes,Ttt, a good old traditional saying , that one!!!
To be honest, I think it's just a matter of if they're hungry or not anbd whether there is food available nearer to home. The buirds who doin't actrually live in our gardens, probably only visit for foods when it's becoming scarce elsewhere. I think, Gee you'd find they might eat them in the later winter when the ground id frosted etc.
I think the red ones usually go first as the birds might see the yellow ones as not yet ripe and ready for eating!