Ich werde dummen, fettem Kopf schlagen, wenn ich herausfindet, welches es getan hat (ich glaube, es war eine der Holztauben), ich war so mit meinen schönen roten Kirschen so begeistert
Von: zjqj
Ich werde dummen, fettem Kopf schlagen, wenn ich herausfindet, welches es getan hat (ich glaube, es war eine der Holztauben), ich war so mit meinen schönen roten Kirschen so begeistert
Von: zjqj
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Wood pigeons love doing that sort of thing and a smaller bird wouldn’t be able to fit them in its gob. Why are you so sure it was only one though? They probably all got together a s feasted.
Just a smart bird…
Welcome to the joys of having a cherry tree…
Are they ripe yet? Not quite.
Today? No…
…
Where tf have all the cherries gone?!
Most inconsiderate bird, cherry picking their food like that..
If you don’t net a cherry tree, pigeons will hammer it. Proper greedy bastards
https://preview.redd.it/aytaofqoziaf1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7180cb1eb9ffb90b9e4fcbea19bc5c0402af4d66
i did add these when i posted, but looks like it didn’t work – here’s before
“I’ll punch it’s stupid…”
Oh, the irony, especially after you called it dumb.
*its.
The same thing happened to mine a couple of days ago! I was shocked they hadn’t descended earlier. I had already been strategically picking almost ripe fruit and got most of it before they (I assume blackbirds) had their feeding frenzy. We had a great harvest this year so I don’t begrudge them some fruit.
Still, better than the year a pigeon ate most of the blossoms off the tree in the spring and we got like two cherries total.
Sacrificial tree.
Those cherries were popping off
Bit ironic calling the bird dumb when it has all the cherries. Can’t get too angry at nature they got to take what they can.
Birds gotta eat 🤷♂️
Yep. They did mine as well. I watched the 2 blackbirds do it most of the afternoon while it was too hot for me to do anything. I did try shouting but they still continued.
Sorry that was me
the pigeons ate my strawberries and redcurrants too
Lovely garden! Very inviting
I’m a bit like that bird. Once I eat one cherry I have to eat them all. Who could blame that bird?
I had a great looking crop then a sudden and dramatic infestation of blackfly – I was away for literally a couple of nights with work and came back to the tree covered.
By the time I picked up some neem and treated it the tree shed most of its leaves and the fruit swiftly followed.
The blighters didn’t touch my beans this year at least so swings and roundabouts…
We rescued a cat a couple of years ago that turned out to be an avicidal maniac. I’m not suggesting you instigate a bird massacre but since he turned up I can grow redcurrants without netting.
Some bird took your cherry? Oh dear…
Had a cherry tree for 25 years. Never eaten a cherry from it. Lots of fat wood pigeons around here though.
Even if your caption is a joke, that’s a disgusting thing to say. Don’t normalise violence against animals.
Reminds me of the cherry picking event that got cancelled. Maybe you got blackbirded
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1n26kj1eeo
At this point my cherry tree is purely just to feed birds.
This is how it works in my garden. I have two medium sized cherry trees.
Wood pigeons like cherries, but usually can’t reach all of them. My trees are quite young and bendy. Clumsy birbs.
Blackbirds also like them, they take cherries one by one and all berries are usually gone within a week or so.
Then there are starlings. If they came across the cherries, all berries will be gone in a few hours if not less.
Edit: I also saw rats climbing and taking cherries… very impressive.
Whatever you want to do to the bird… your garden set up does looks lovely though.
Bet it was a fat wood pigeon
Birds gotta eat too 😁
1) calm down leave the woodpigeon alone
2) unless you only had a dozen cherries, woodpigeons didn’t do this.
Starlings, once the flock spot a tree, they can strip the whole thing in hours. Minutes if it’s a small enough tree.
I’m shaking an angry fist for your loss. I suggest going out and yelling at them tomorrow 😂 not that it helps now, I’ve used organza bags on my fruits this year to try to deter theft!
Bird did exactly what it was supposed to.
I feel your pain. I had to chase pigeons off of my Amalanchier earlier this summer. I was looking forward to making some juneberry jam, as it was a bumper crop. They sat on all the branches and broke more than 50% of them in their quest for the berries growing at the end of the spindly branches.
Cherries aside, I like your collection of trees in pots. Looks lovely
I’ve had a cheery tree for eight years, it’s fruited all but one of those years..
How many cherries have I eaten from it?
… One!
One solitary cherry when I was testing ripeness,
bleeding birds have eaten all the others every single year.
Get a pet kestrel
HEY EVERYBODY, LOOK AT MY GARDEN!
Tbf it looks awesome.
The wood pigeons do that to my cherry tree too. They don’t even eat them half the time, just pick it off with the leaves and drop them. I’m very sure it’s one of the reasons why my tree is half dead now (not the main reason though). They sometimes do that to my apple trees and the potted olive tree. At least when the parakeets do it, they eat them and fly off when they had enough.
awh thats actually cute. i fed a bird some berries in my garden before.. i can see why youd be pissed though
*hungry bird*
It’s always the first week of July. You get one day to pick them or they belong to the birds.
I got married a couple years back in early July and my dad was so annoyed to come home to an empty cherry tree.
Meanwhile there’s a few cherry trees outside the flats halfway down my road that the pigeons have forgotten about this year. It’s social housing and the management company send some people to mow the grass every couple of months but the cherry trees are left to continue to grow. They’re about the height of a house so there’s no way any of us in the neighbourhood can pick them either.
Just be pleased that you’re providing nutrition for the local wildlife 🙂
Magpies are finishing off what the wood pigeons left me. Didn’t realise how noisy and aggressive they are.
You snooze, you lose.
Gotta keep em off or this is what happens, birds looooooove cherries.
Well, you did leave the ladder right there!