Deer dont see colors?

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I have to confess, I like berries.
I like just about all berries, other than those stupid Himalayans.
I have been fighting them back along my driveway for 7 years now.
My two favorite berries are the blue huckleberries and thimbleberries.
I have allowed them to flourish along my driveway, and collect them on a regular basis.
Due to their fragility and relative scarcity, I collect a few everyday, as soon as they are ripe.
I usually get between 1/4 and 1/2 cup a day.
The last few days a doe and her two fawns have been hanging out in my driveway, and I cannot find a single ripe berry.
Other than a few blackberries (trailing) 
There are pink ones, but all the ripe red ones are gone.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Only the red ones are gone..

[Fl0und3rz]

There's one right there.  Are you sure you see colors?

J/K

[JJB11B]

It could be a scent thing too

[grundy53]

They see blue.

[Bango skank]

Didnt know those were good to eat.  There are tons of them where i live.  Been meaning to look it up for a long time, just never got around to it.  Guess ill give some a try.

[_TONY_]

I can sit and eat those for hours, if I find a good patch...

[Bullkllr]

Didnt know those were good to eat.  There are tons of them where i live.  Been meaning to look it up for a long time, just never got around to it.  Guess ill give some a try.

Taste like a sweet raspberry.

[Bigshooter]

They see blue.

And I'm sure they can smell a ripe berry.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Ahh, the smell... That must be it.

Didnt know those were good to eat.  There are tons of them where i live.  Been meaning to look it up for a long time, just never got around to it.  Guess ill give some a try.

One of the best. There was a guy that actually tried to cultivate for commercial harvest, but the berries are too soft, did not work out.

[fishnfur]

Not just the smell; the berries are so fragile that they likely just lick the ripe Thimbleberry right of the plant, preserving the remaining berries for later.  That would explain only the ripe ones being missing.  Then again, birds love those berries too.

[Turner89]

Its funny how we grow up calling things by different names. I have always called thimble berries .....CAPberries

[Bango skank]

Its funny how we grow up calling things by different names. I have always called thimble berries .....CAPberries

I just now found out these are salmon berries.  I grew up calling a totally different berry salmonberry.  Feel pretty stupid walking by these for years not knowing theyre a common edible.  I will be walking by a big patch on the way to check one of my cameras in a couple days.  Ill have to stop and gather some on the way out.

[kball4]

I call them wild raspberries, salmon berries look like blackberries but are yellow or orange and grow on those sticker bush tree things.  That's what I've always thought.

[fishnfur]

That's closer. 

Thimbleberry - Rubus parviflorus, commonly called thimbleberry, salmonberry, and snow bramble, is a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, and the Great Lakes region - (not really a salmonberry) -  always red, thin shell of seeds that fit nicely on your fingers, and very tasty.




Salmonberry - Rubus spectabilis is a species of Rubus native to the west coast of North America from west central Alaska to California. It is a shrub growing to 1–4 m tall, with perennial, not biennial woody stems that are covered with fine prickles - generally orange, sometimes with a red- purple tinge.  Not a heck of a lot of taste, but a nice treat when your hot and thirsty.



Blackcap -  western American species - Rubus leucodermis. Other names occasionally used include wild black raspberry, black caps, black cap raspberry, thimbleberry, and scotch cap.  Mild taste, never pass them up because they don't last long.