On 2016-07-11 11:35 AM, William wrote:
> 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.
>

When we first moved here the front section of the property across the
road had about two acres of sour cherry trees. The person who owned the
property used to look after them in the spring but never seemed to
harvest them. We had a tradition of the stolen cherry pie. I would come
home from work and make a batch of pie dough and set it into the fridge
to cool. Then I went across the road and picked enough cherries to make
a pie, brought them home, pitted them and made the pie. It was always
the best pie of the year.