On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:58:28 -0400, "Stubby"
wrote:

I have some small fruit trees. The apples look very good but squirrels
are climbing up the trees to get them. Any ideas on preventing this? How
do the large orchards cope with this problem?


Nothing but a guess here, but metal flashing around the trunk (old
stove pipe, aluminum foil, grease the trunks ).

What will you do about the birds? They take a bite and move to the
next fruit...