On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:11:22 GMT, gray wrote:

If you think you can leave your cherries, that are just no quite ripe
till tomorrow.

Then forget about it.

As the blackbirds, pigeons etc will have wiped them out during the
night ?? and will leave absolutley nothing on the branches.

So cover them up, the cherries that is, not the birds.

Actually, the crows are probably quite useful, apart from the noise
and habit of depositing bird skeletons on the garden paths. We
haven't seen a magpie in the garden since they arrived. They
intimidate and chase off other birds from the cherry tree and don't
take that many themselves. When they do, it's a whole cherry carefully
and neatly removed.