Photo and Haiku for 02 October 2023

Townsend’s Solitaire
Eats ripe Juniper berries
Has a white eye ring

These birds survive the winter by eating ripe Juniper berries. One study suggested they would need to eat between 42,000 and 84,000 juniper berries to survive the winter. Now that is a lot of berries.

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