"B & J" wrote in message
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"paghat" wrote in message
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In article , "pixi"
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Anyone know how to discourage the birds from snacking on my fruit?
Between
birds and squirrels we have had our peach crop pretty well demolished.
Now
they are working on the plums. HELP!!!

The most likely to succeed method is netting. Since my fruit trees are
for
looks foremost I wouldn't like them netted, but I admit it is sometimes
a
nuisance that I cannot beat the birds to many of the sweet cherries, &
it
gets more & more tempting to get a net from an orchard supplier. Netting
must either be pegged to the ground, or literally tucked under the lower
limbs & bound around the trunk, or smarty-pants birds will go right
under
it, pig out, & then hop to the ground to leave.

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-paghat the ratgirl

I managed to keep the birds out of my peaches by using netting, but I had
to
be careful about birds getting trapped. That meant a trip around the trees
a
couple times a day. In the course of a week, I had to free a half dozen
birds.

You could always have a cat or a black snake take up permanent residence in
the netting