I must admit that untill recently I was begining to think that I had not built a fruit cage but a flight avairy.

Every day it semed that there was either a blackbird or robin in there. Found a gap by the gate but seemed to do no good even when I fixed that.

Then I spotted the blackbird go under the gate and after about 2/3 minutes, scampered out under it again.

Fixed that but still had the robin.

Eventually I spotted him on the roof of the cage, run along the supporting wires and pop through the roof, again a couple of minutes later he hopped along the upper wire of the blackberry bed and dived through a gap.

On looking closer I found that where I had joined two runs of netting together, I had left a gap.

Had no more birds since but the robin does watch from the top of the cage while I'm digging outside and is down like a shot when I move away.