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Modified 30-Jan-26
Created 28-Jan-26
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Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia, AKA Christmas Berry or California Holly) sports bright red berries around the year’s end. When ripe, these berries provide vital sustenance to American Robins from all around the area, migrating Cedar Waxwings, and other birds and animals. First People had many uses: eaten fresh, as jelly, tea, cooked into porridge or pancakes, and medicinally (Wikipedia 2026). In the Los Angeles area, so many people collected branches for Christmas decorations that a 1921 law restricted this practice. (Wikipedia 2026).
A raucous round of Robins, augmented by a stray Cedar Waxwing, descends for a frenzied feeding one morning along Sweet Springs Trail.
Earlier, a pair of House Finch test berries near the Frog Pond. Later, robins strip these bushes.
A raucous round of Robins, augmented by a stray Cedar Waxwing, descends for a frenzied feeding one morning along Sweet Springs Trail.
Earlier, a pair of House Finch test berries near the Frog Pond. Later, robins strip these bushes.
Dan Quinn