Mapping the orchard, with a little help

We've been adding fruit trees to our land a little at a time over the last 10 years or so. There are also a few grand old apple trees that were here long before we were, our neighbor whose in his 70's can remember the apple trees being there when he was a boy. These heritage apple trees don't always produce well and some have rather big issues but some years they give us a wonderful crop of apples.

Grand old apple tree in two photos below.

Old apple tree below that basically fell apart then came back to life...with a hole in the trunk. A lot of it is missing but it has started to produce again. 

As for the newer trees some were bought as tiny little seedlings and others at 2-3 years old. These include cherry, plum, peach and pear trees, as well as a couple more apple. The older of these "newer" trees have been producing for a few years, small crops at first but now the cherry trees as well as a couple of the peaches and one plum tree produce pretty well. I think we may get our first really large peach harvest this year, that is if we beat the wildlife to the peaches. Part of the solution to the problem of wildlife eating the fruit was the recent fence expansion. Of course nothing will stop birds and squirrels. The birds generally get many more of the cherries than we do!

Will we get to eat any of these cherries below or will the wild birds get them all like last year. They will be ripe when they turn a deeper, darker red. 

Some of the trees have thrived while others have continually struggled or didn't make it. We've learn by trial and error that trees purchased at nurseries or the garden centers of large hardware type stores tend to do well while trees from big box department stores haven't fared as well and often are not labelled well enough to know what they really are. One tree comes to mind it's label just reads apple-yellow another is plum-red. We have  couple trees that are a good size but never fruited in one case a pollination issue may be at fault but in others it may be that those random trees arenn';t meant for our part of the country. It's been a learning process.

Things didn't go so well for the tree below.

As time goes on some labels have fallen off of the newer fruit trees and we need a method of knowing what trees are planted. I decided to make a map of the orchard. None of the cats joined me for this project but some of the chickens decided to help out. The fruit orchard that is now combined with their area is after all part of their patch now, it's all one big fence...well many 100 foot lengths of fence attached together!) since the expansion.  I think head rooster Mo was trying to make sure I did it right.

The peaches look the most promising this year, one short wide tree I've covered with netting and surrounded with hardware cloth when I found something had already eaten all the lowest, not even close to ripe, peaches. 

I had plenty of helpers as I attempted to map  the orchard. I made a few paper copies because I kept getting the lines wrong, when I'm happy with it I'll do a proper map on the computer and print out,