fruit-lover

Updated: May 12, 2025

A fruit-lover is the catbird, beginning with the June berries on the banks of streams near which she often builds her nest and continuing with wild strawberries, blackberries, wild grapes and the berries of the Virginia creeper sometimes also seen busily scooping out a big hole on the rosy side of a tempting apple in the orchard.

Frederick John Lazell - Some Spring Days in Iowa