Say Hello to My Leetle Friend!

It's veraison, when the grapes turn color and begin their ripening phase. The robins are already in the vineyard and the starlings have a squadron of advance scouts sitting on the irrigation pivot monitoring progress.

Tube Man will buy us about a week to get the nets up before the little peckers get used to him and start moving in.

We have every pound of grapes already spoken for this year so can't afford to lose any to the pests. I mean the birds. Rats with wings.