"John Savage" wrote in message
jzfredricks writes:
I've just moved homes and for the first time have a fruit tree - a
peach tree. I know very little about gardening, and I'm wondering if i
have to protect the fruit from insects, birds, bats etc?

The tree has flowered, and now has many small peaches.

I live in Brisbane, Australia, and it's winter here (not that it gets
cold, mind you).

It's most likely a flowering peach that you have. Enjoy it for its
blossom, the fruit will fall off as soon as they form.

The fruit on mine doesn't. The majority stays till they're ripe. They look
extremely unpalatable (small and green) but the flesh is devine - white,
fragrant, juicy. We discovered they were good to eat when my husband bit
into one some years back. I told him they were "flowering peaches" and not
for eating, but he convinced me they were good and after I tried one, I
couldn't believe I'd let them go to waste for all those years.

And to the OP, cover your tree with bird netting - it can be bought in all
sorts of sizes including up to 9M. Use the white bird netting, the black
stuff kills birds because they can't see it and get their legs caught in it.