Gardening

About 10 years ago I planted a cherry tree in my yard - it's a Northstar, which grows tart cherries that are good for pies and jam. After a couple of years it got big enough to start producing a lot of cherries, but the birds would usually get to them before I could. So one summer I bought some netting and draped it over the tree, which worked for awhile - but one day I went out and found a small bird all tangled up in the netting. I managed to cut the bird loose, but after that I felt so guilty that I took the netting off and haven't used it since (and the tree is too big now to use it anyhow). So now maybe I can grab a few cherries off the lower branches if I get to them as soon as they ripen, and the birds get the rest. It's possible that chipmunks are eating them too, but I haven't observed that so far. Squirrels get the apples. Nature always bats last. I will be interested in hearing whether your grocery bag experiment works, but critters always seem to find a way.