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Originally Posted by priller
When I lived in a house in NW Austin we had 2 big mulberry trees in our yard. In the spring, when the berries came out, the grackles would flock to them to eat the berries, then leave copious amounts of purple bird poop behind. My mailbox would be covered with the stuff.
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Our neighbors across the street actually had two of them in their front yard. One fell over into the street one afternoon. And they cut down the other one shortly after that. They later replaced it with a pecan tree and now it's almost about 30 feet tall and covers most of the front yard.
We also had a Hackberry in our backyard along the fence. I like to say that the squirrels and birds planted it since it stood right below the power lines.
The tree also had a lot of ants on it all the time, I guess they were eating the berries. Anyway, the city came out a few years ago and cut it down since it was growing into the power lines badly.
Our yard is covered with mostly Live oaks and elms. Two oaks in the back, two pecans in the back, one elm in the front and 3 oaks in the front. We also have a 30 foot palm tree that was planted when the neighborhood was developed, and another one of the same kind on the side of the house that my dad planted about 15 years ago.
Our neighbor to our left has another oak that is right near the fence, so half of it shades our yard. And another huge oak in their yard shades a good bit of our yard, all of their house and most of the front yard and at least half of the back yard. That tree is probably about 400 years old. Too big to get my arms around. And they have another oak on the other side of their back yard. In their front, they have 2 groups of about 5 elms all together. Our neighbor on the other side has a big Pecan tree out front, a small Live Oak in back, and a Sycamore that must be about 80 or 90 feet tall. They also have two 30 foot palm trees in their front yard. Most of our neighborhood is either Live oak, Elms, Pecans or Sycamores.
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