[Sca-cooks] fruit trees

[Sharon Gordon]

> When I had a peach tree at our other house, the birds would poke holes
> in the fruit. I would have been willing to share if they'd done this to
> just a few peaches or eat most of a peach. But they would poke a hole
> in one fruit and then go on to another, and another...

I've found that birds tend to do this ( and particularly to tomatoes) when
easy access to water is not available.  So I keep a bird bath filled daily
with fresh water and it cuts the damage from birds pecking holes in fruit to
get liquid to near zero.

Sharon
gordonse at one.net