re: Blackberries

I have blackberries, raspberries, figs and muscadines. My grandparents taught me years ago that birds hate shiny things - it scares them. They always hung cheap pie plates out when things were ripening and it works like a charm! Now you can buy ribbon that is about an inch wide and looks holographic - does the same thing. I just cut off long pieces of that and tie all over my vines and trees. Of course I still hang a pie plate too, just for my grandmother. But I never lose a berry or fig to a bird!