Are the birds eating unripe currants?

[flossie]

My -  unripe  - red and black currants are disappearing fast.
Normally I net them right at the end of May/when they are starting to ripen.

This year there are now signs of ripening but the are disappearing.  Has anybody else had trouble this year?

Any thoughts?

[flossie]

[Simon05]

my red currants have been disappearing fast as well, but mine are in a fruit cage, I have put it down to the weather being too cold and wet

[saddad]

My bushes are throwing away pounds of unripe currants but I still have 10lbs from last year and more than I could ever pick!
8)

[Tin Shed]

Last year I lost all my red currants - no jelly that year - to the pigeons.
I only worked out what was going wrong when all the currants had gone . I presumed it was pigeons as many of the branches were broken as smaller birds aren't that heavy. I don't have them in a fruit cage so have covered them with old net curtains which hopefully will help

[Simon05]

net curtains will work, we have to cover the gooseberries in them as the pigeons ate one bush clean a couple of years ago