The birds are decimating our tomatoes

Seems that birds are attracted to the red color of ripening tomatoes, so they swoop down and peck big holes in the fruit. They leave the green ones and the yellow ones alone. So far, they've claimed about half of our crop, the beautiful little pests!

I'm pretty sure that the chimney swifts that swoop and screech around here are the culprits. They fly really really high, then plunge straight down towards the ground, swooping up only at the last second to soar up and do it again. And they'll chase each other, swooping and squawking, over and over. Looks like fun.

We should have bought bird netting by now, but have we? No. It's just one of those things that we keep forgetting to do, until we get back upstairs and look over the plants. Then it's, "D'oh!"

It's almost as frustrating as being a Democrat! Argh!