On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:35:19 -0400
William Wagner wrote:

In article ssTZf.885177$x96.651247@attbi_s72, "Tom"
wrote:

Do any of you have any suggestions on how to prevent birds from eating my
fruit when they are ripe? Putting netting over the trees is out of the
question and artificial owls do not work. I put netting over my strawberry
patch and that helps. Thanks for your help.

Consider Queen Anne cherries as they are yellow. I might be wrong
about that but if my memory serves me well this may be worth looking
into.


Sadly the birds love the Queen Annes too. And many of them
do shade a little red at the end. This past year I
managed to get about half of them, after a late start. I
left the rest for the following morning. When I came out,
there was not a cherry left.

Oddly birds don't seem to bother my plums, or my neighbor's
cherries (he has Queen Anne and dark red also) as much as
they do mine. Red, white, whatever.

I may try the CD thing this year. There's a fellow up the road
who does it, he always seems to have a big crop quite late on.

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