"wafflycat" writes:

I discovered that blackbirds are eating my strawberries. Until I
discovered this I was thinking I was crap at growing strawberries. Now
I know I'm not.

At my previous house I could always tell when the blackcurrants were
ripe because I'd look at the bushes and see they'd been stripped and
the usual perching places round the garden had little piles of purple
poo under them.

In this place I've not bothered with currants and mostly the fruit
stays intact. Last year the blackbirds ate most of the grapes though,
the weather meant they were smaller than usual and I came to the
conclusion that the blackbirds will scoff anything they can fit in
their beak whole. There must be some cherry trees with small fruit
somewhere around, the perching places have little heaps of crap
covered cherry stones under them...

Anthony