In our lovely Midlands garden, I planted a cherry tree and it did wonderfully well. But a couple of days before they were ready to pick, they would all disappear to our very numerous song thrushes and blackbirds. it would drive my OH mad, but I was a lot more tolerant. The bird song at dawn was so beautiful, it was worth every cherry - really. In the end I got some cheap net curtains from a charity shop and made some wide sleeves which I tied at each end on the lower branches- so we had a few for ourselves.
Two days ago, I cleared, dug and prepared a new long bed for all the stray raspberries (using up the left over home made compost from one of my many compost bins) - put in some posts and wire and tied them in.
And today, low and behold, 2 make bullfinches visited us, eating the few last raspberries on those canes. What a wonderful and colourful sight - the deep red, black and white - wonderful. We also planted 2 apples, 2 crab apples and a plum to join the mirabelle and greengage planted last year - let's hope the bullfinches will not strip all the buds in the Spring 
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