Thanks for sharing Brendan. If you identify areas with fruit and nut shrubs on your property, you may want to make annual visits to monitor for changes due to plant succession. Plant succession is a slow process of changing plant communities from field to forest. If the shrubs are left untended, they could become dominated by trees seeding in and growing up among the shrubs. Over time, the trees will continue to grow in height and may shade out the shrubs entirely. WAC added a "shrubland habitat" stewardship practice to the Management Assistance Program in 2008. The practice requires cutting down saplings and trees greater than 1 inch in diameter, to keep established shrubs healthy. Shrub habitat provides dense cover, good nesting sites and excellent foraging for fruits and nuts. Promoting shrub areas on your property could provide necessary the conditions for birds like: American woodcock, Whip-poor-will, Canada warbler, Black-throated blue warbler, and Brown thrasher.