A Foe of Johnson Grass
Journal
Condor
Volume
17
Issue
5 (September-October)
Year
1915
Pages
204
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
A Foe of Johnson Grass
On the afternoon of July 9, while busy digging out Johnson grass along a line fence, I was startled by an unusual bird song, and looking up I beheld a male Blue Grosbeak who sang between meals as he swayed on the pendant ripening heads of this obnoxious grass. This was the only bird of any species that I have observed feeding to any considerable extent on this altogether too abundant food supply. One would have thought to see him work that he, too, had heard the order of the horticultural commissioner. If “By their fruits ye shall know them”, applies to birds also, then the farmer certainly ought to chalk down at least one big round credit for the Blue Grosbeak.
Joseph Dixon
Escondido, California
