Great post. My old place had a serviceberry also much desired by
wildlife but I followed a gardener's (not a birder's!) advice and put
in an Aronia here. I don't know why but in four years not a single
bird has taken an Aronia berry of which there are many! They do love
to bits the berries of the wild alternate leaved Dogwood I found with
seven leaves under the oil tank and is now a big tree, a cornucopia of
berries/drupes?... also, crabapples in winter...Veer Frost, Passumpsic

On 7/21/2019 at 8:23 AM, "Walter Medwid"  wrote:Sitting on my deck
this morning catching up on the news with coffee in
hand, binoculars at the ready and overlooking a 20 foot tall
serviceberry
shrub loaded with ripening berries, the traffic to the berries has
been
remarkable. Veeries, robins, catbirds, YB sapsuckers, and cedar
waxwings
seem to be managing well without the benefit of air traffic control.
Chipmunks and red squirrels are taking advantage of the bounty as
well. All
the traffic seems to attract other avian species which seem to be
investigating all the activity-chestnut sideds and redstarts in
particular.
This shrub typically produces well each year but this one seems just a
bit
more robust.

I share all this just to encourage the planting of it in other yards
if you
are interested in helping wildlife.  It seems daunting to figure out
how we
aid wildlife with all of the threats but planting serviceberries is
one; I
also have dramatically reduced the amount of lawn the former owners
maintained and letting trees return; encouraging milkweed and other
productive pollenating plants.