Have my birds and eat pie too

A few weeks ago, when the Michigan cherries started to ripen, I had a notable influx of birds in my yard, eating said cherries from my small little new tree. I’ve only had it for a few years, and last year, they ate them as fast as they ripened. Actually, they never really got that far. So I netted it this year and saw a huge drop in bird activity.

Figuring I could buy a pie, but I couldn’t buy birds in my yard, I unnetted it about a day or two later, and the birds came back.

But what I hadn’t counted on was the abundance of cherries. The birds couldn’t keep up, so when they began over ripening on the tree, I started picking them. And picking them. And picking them, until I had five cups. And as my recipe says, that’s enough for a pie.

So Guy helped me pit them, and I made up a crust, and we had pie! I think I’ll do it again next year. . .