Cherries and berries
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Bears .......... they'll eat just about anything. Cherries and berries - oh yeah. I suppose deer would eat berries if in reach, have no idea about cherries.
Bear determination - A bear tore the lid - hinges and all - off a big, old commercial chest freezer at a camp up the road from ours. It smelled what turned out to be an empty hot dog wrapper left over from the deer hunting season. That was all that was in the freezer, and it happened a couple years ago. The freezer was on the back patio of that camp and didn't work - they just used it in deer season with ice in it.
If any of you guys would like some bears of your very own ............. we can lend you a few. Pa. has way too many of them.
Bear determination - A bear tore the lid - hinges and all - off a big, old commercial chest freezer at a camp up the road from ours. It smelled what turned out to be an empty hot dog wrapper left over from the deer hunting season. That was all that was in the freezer, and it happened a couple years ago. The freezer was on the back patio of that camp and didn't work - they just used it in deer season with ice in it.
If any of you guys would like some bears of your very own ............. we can lend you a few. Pa. has way too many of them.
I did any every third row thinning in my red pines 5 years ago. Took out every row that was adjacent to any fire lane. Plus any outside rows where there were no fire lanes. The sunlight can now get to the understory, especially on East to West fire lanes. The very outside of these lanes are just thick with black cap berries in the summer. I saw a spot last year where a big bear actually laid down in the middle of a pocket of black cap berry bushes and just started eating. No doubt it was a bear, because the bushes were just flattened to the ground. I have seen deer eat mulberries on the ground at my house, so my guess is that they will go after berries also.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Deer will browse the branches on cherries I would think they would eat the fruit too. I'm big into high top cranberries on our farm lots of benefits for all kinds of wildlife that eat them and the deer almost browse them to hard. Any type of berry never seems to go uneaten by some type of bird and deer will nibble on about anything they can reach as they travel through.
The bear on my place climb my wild cherry trees(pin or choke) and break the branches off. These are large branches about 6 inches in diameter. I think they do this so they can easily just eat them on the ground. I would guess I've see about 8 trees like this. They only busted off one of my apple trees (dolgo) so it seems that cherries are high on there preference. I can't tell if the deer are eating the black berries, I assume that its just the bears. The deer do mow down the stems in the winter, thorns and all. I have two berries on my land too. The small ones we call black raspberries and the larger elongated are black berries. I have a large patch of grey dogwoods that get the white berries that the bear hit hard every year.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
I can't find anything called high top cranberry for sale.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
They are called High Top or High Bush Cranberry...same thing. Great wildlife shrub.
I buy mine here;
https://www.coldstreamfarm.net/highbush-cranberry-viburnum-trilobum.html
I would definitely plan on caging the cranberries. My friend planted them in his yard next to the road and the deer totally mowed them down. He caged them and they look great now. They are about 6-8ft now and loaded with berries every year. I heard the grouse love them.
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