They seem to be sorta like blackberries or dewberries on trees. But there is nothing nastier than a mulberry tree that hangs over a sidewalk. What a mess!
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I have two, birds eat the berries, then come over to my drive way to take a colorful dump on my cars wind shields.
I would rather get a purple car than have a yard without mulberries. Then again, cutting down the mulberries here wouldnt do any good because the birds would still do the same with the elderberries and everything else around here and I wouldnt dream of getting rid of all those other things.
I think though that the concern about bird splatter is more of part of the character of those that are raised closer to town. I have flocks of screaming seagulls wheeling overhead all the time, flocks of turkeys come sit on the house and like to roost on vehicle roofs, plenty of visiting geese that stop by though they dont seem intent on interacting with the geese that mow my lawn, not to even try to mention everything that comes down the Mississippi flyway.
Theres a new phenomenon here, flying chihuahua turds. We dont know where they are coming from. Youll just be sitting in the house and hear something hit the siding. When you go out and look there is a bent half dried chihuahua turd laying there. A lot of locals are blaming the pelicans because the problem seems to have started and increased with the pelicans returning and their population increasing. The thing is that pelicans dont shoot torpedoes, theyre painters too and I think theyre being blamed because they are the most visible of the large birds that have returned.
The large birds here had disappeared by the 30’s but somewhere around 2000-2001 everything returned. Cranes, egrets, pelicans, bald eagles, and a bunch of other things returned like they all had simultaneously gotten an invitation so no one here has enough experience to know for sure what is doing it.
I guess I live in some sort of weird bird guano wonderland. If there was some way to scoop it all up Id be rich.