Red Osier Dogwood is a common bush with white berries that grows on our property. Yesterday when we did a walk around the pond we noticed that all of the Osier Dogwood bushes we came upon had been thrashed. It didn’t take us long to figure out who the marauder was; it was our neighborhood black bear.
My plant book says the berries are “bitter and inedible,” but I guess bears haven’t read the book, because they seem to love the berries (as do Pileated Woodpeckers). The white berries are now mature and the bear has traveled through the neighborhood sampling them.
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