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I have recently planted a crab apple tree in my garden it is already 6ft and its first flowers opened today. Could any body tell me if and what birds eat the apples please.
Thank you!!
Hi owain,
Crab Apples provide an important winter resource for a variety of species, including thrushes and tits.
Best of luck,
MC:-)
Hi owain21
I endorse what MC says. Just leave the fruit on the tree to go soft or rotten. Leave any fallen fruit - something will eat them. Crab apples are hosts to a variety of insect life in summer so they are good all round trees.
Regards
TJ
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cheers for that im glad i chose a good tree and im always looking for ways to help birds and other wildlife as often as possible. thanks for the info.
My first post on this site was about a flock of fieldfare and some redwing on my Red Sentinel crab apple during the bad weather. Normally, I have mistle thrush, blackbird, starling, blue,coal and great tit on the fruit and insects, with long tail tits and goldfinch in summer after the insects. It is also a great place to hang feeders, so you get others just for the cover provided. Bats fly round it in summer
Added to that, I have enough apples to make jelly, it has pretty flowers and is a focal point in the garden over winter.
Enjoy your new tree. It will give you years of enjoyment.
Unknown said: My first post on this site was about a flock of fieldfare and some redwing on my Red Sentinel crab apple during the bad weather. Normally, I have mistle thrush, blackbird, starling, blue,coal and great tit on the fruit and insects, with long tail tits and goldfinch in summer after the insects. It is also a great place to hang feeders, so you get others just for the cover provided. Bats fly round it in summer Added to that, I have enough apples to make jelly, it has pretty flowers and is a focal point in the garden over winter. Enjoy your new tree. It will give you years of enjoyment.
Thanks for the brilliant reply, i feel really good about it now i just hope it getts as busy as yours lol. As it is only about 6ft tall at the mo can i expect it to be growing apples this year?? Yup the flowers have not long opened and their really beautiful!!
Im really happy with its progress so far its foliage has doubled since i planted it in mid april.
Thanks again
This is what was in one of my Crab apple trees today.
i noticed this picture on the other forum and asked if it was a crab apple, this obviously answers that. i hope i get visitors like this!!
Excelent photo there.
The blooms are real nice
Cheers
AL
If its no fun Yer no doin it right!
My tree has been in for nearly twenty years so memories of it's first few are dim, but I can't remember a year without fruit.
Great shot of the bullfinch. Ours only turns up when the amelanchier fruits in late summer.