On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:43:49 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>I have been keeping an eye on the local sour cherry orchards. One around
>the corner from me looks like it is just about ready for harvest. We
>were driving past it yesterday and I saw a strange side. There was a
>flock of herring gulls flying around one corner of it. It is quite
>common to see gulls flocking to fields that are being plowed or mowed,
>but there was no tractor and nothing happening. There was one gull
>perched in a tree and he appeared to be eating cherries. I didn't know
>gull liked fresh fruit enough to eat it from a tree but what was more
>curious was to see a web footed bird perched on a branch.

Dave, you better just get you a ladder, set it up under the first tree
in the Orchard, climb up there and start eating Cherries!

Otherwise the birds may get em all.

William