Seedfork said:For me it's oak seedlings, I pulled up over sixty in one small bed just yesterday.
I wondered the same thing, but I had no knowledge of bird parts.
Definition:" A bird's crop is a compartment of muscle tissue that birds use to store and soften their food before it moves on to be processed by the gizzard."
Oak seedlings are supposed to be there... the squirrels likely buried them and weren't hungry enough to retrieve them....
Last winter... A squirrel went down my entire patch of pecans that I'd planted and dug them all back up... *&!
Re: crop... My bad... I forget that people aren't familiar with anatomy. I grew up processing home-grown chickens...
My take on the intact berries... is that the crop had processed some of them...
Cyanide is scary, and those poor birds aren't equipped to handle it.
At my house, every berry has been harvested from the remaining nandina (the ones I haven't grubbed out yet). They'll be gone before the next poisonous offering...
