Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At least the Starlings are clever enough to pick whole cherries and fly over to the garage roof to eat them - the Blackbirds just peck a chunk out and drop the rest - the ground around the tree is now littered with half-eaten cherries which makes the whole thing even more annoying and squelchy underfoot (and attracts the slugs and snails). The Rooks seem to break off whole twigs just for the fun of it. I'm not sure I'd mind too much if it was squirrels, they're a delight to watch and don't screech either. Cheers Douglas Henning Wulff wrote: > At 12:49 AM +0200 5/28/07, Douglas Sharp wrote: >> If we're lucky, we may be able to enjoy a couple of cherries too - >> the tree is full of robbers of all shapes and sizes. >> These are two of the smaller ones - the others are Rooks, Blackbirds, >> Starlings, Pigeons - even a Blackcap, but I think it was picking at >> insects, not cherries. The noise is dreadful, they start screeching >> and chattering at about 5.30 AM, about 10 feet away from my bedroom >> window. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_5790_edited-1.jpg.html >> >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> Technical stuff: Canon 20D Rolleinar 3,5/200mm at f5.6 ISO 400 - >> centre crop > > We hardly even see cherries. The squirrels eat the buds before they > even flower, and then finish most of the flowers off as they open. Any > green cherries that do show up are taken care of by the crows and, > again, the squirrels. In 20 years I think I've had a dozen cherries > from our tree. >