Bird netting is often a necessary element of bringing your grapes to fruition before the pesky birds begin destroying your crops you've been working all year on. It's most important to cover the outside rows because the quick little birds like to hide in the trees and dive bomb the grapes. Luckily, in The Mayacamas Mountains there is a healthy Eagle population so that scares the birds enough to stay out of the middle where they wouldn't have a chance of getting back to the trees that they hide/live in. Encouraging a beneficial eagle/owl population is one of the best ways to protect your crop from predators of many types. The bird netting is also great, but it sure is a lot of work!
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