Let the harvest protecting begin!

I love my cherry harvest so much I go to great lengths to protect it from the wildlife, who also love it. What do you do to protect your harvest?

Sandy

I'd had a similar experience with my berry bushes.  And then deer that would eat my apple saplings flush to the ground in a particularly harsh winter.  My best success in fruit harvests is to also plant for the birds and deer.  They eat my stuff less if I give them lots of elderberry bushes, hackberry trees, service and winterberries and all kinds of yet unidentified berries/nuts(?) that I nurture in wild grow areas.  My conditions are different, upper midwest (4b), so maybe not the same plants.  I can't even grow most of the cherry trees here, but I found a few sour cherries to plant.

The deer love wild plum and will dig through the snow for dropped fruit while leaving my trees alone.  Of course, I've noted over time that has meant I've attracted more wildlife especially deer (something that I really like until they strip my harvestable linden leaves; they still love these leaves when they can reach them).  

I also have nets I put on my jabuticaba when it's fruiting. The papayas, I can't use them as quickly as they ripen, so I let the little crazy birds attack a fruit or two.

I saw a crow land on the ladder next to the cherry tree.
Then lots of flapping and a big russling as a blue jay chased it away.
I see some bird pecks out of the cherries but they don't seem to get many.
Mine are sour cherries, which might not be as popular with the birds, north star fruiting now and meteor coming soon.

I think mulberries might be coming on at the same time, judging by the bird poop stains on my car.
Raspberries are for sure fruiting now.
So like mac said, give them something else to eat.