A Very Cherry Feathered Friday

Welcome to the Cherry Tree Everyone

Well the cherries are getting ripe and the birds are all over the Cherry tree now.
So grab your favorite fruit and pull up a chair for a very cherry Friday here at @featheredfriends

Come and Get Em !
Just about all the birds here in the hood take full advantage of the ripe cherries this time of year and sadly one of the last times for all of us.
The old Cherry tree has to come down soon due to bugs and illness, part of the tree is already dead and most of it dying. There is one dying branch that just managed to flower.... in mid July... The flowers were small and immature but the Hummingbirds are enjoying the late blooms.

Staring off with the Sparrows here, they can eat the cherries on the stem without detaching it from the tree.

Each bird seems to have it's own tecnique to eating cherries

Now the Robins will select a cherry and pull it off the tree and take it to the ground bite into it and unroll the skin and fruit from the pit and then wolf it down

Ah yes the perfect cherry

Really like this shot along with the lead image , those cherries the Robin is with are no longer with us, RIP

Here Mr. Crow tightropes it down a skinny branch to retrieve it's selection

After a short acrobatic routine the prize is almost won

Wooo Hooo time to eat.

The crows seem to show off the cherry for a bit befor pinning it to a branch where they peel it and rip chunks of it off like eating an Apple around the core.

This one ate about 5 Cherries in total before being chased off by our next guest The Raven, who doesn't like Crows in "His Cherry Tree"

After Chasing off the Crows the Raven opted to score a bread roll from the preschool across the street to bring back and eat in the Fir tree in the back corner where he can keep an eye on his cherry tree.
Funny thing is these Ravens don't seem to eat Cherries... at all, never seen them eat even one.

There are a mated pair here that live close by, this is the large male pictured and he doesn't let Crows or Pigions stay in the Cherry tree long unless they are off doing Raven stuff. Doesn't seem to have a problem with Robins or Sparrows though

Well I'm loosing the light and my arm is tired from holding the 600 mm lens all day so I'll leave off here.
HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE
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