Citrus are ignored by squirrels, birds, raccoons and possums.

Thanks kumquat. I would go with citrus but they don't to to well in our winters at least that is what I have read.

We have planted Apricot trees at two of the places we have lived. The first time they bore fruit, the birds cleaned them out before we could pick any.

The following year we wrapped bird netting around the tree and were able to enjoy the fruits.

A link that might be useful:

www.gardeners.com/Bird-Netting/16319,default,pd.html

if you like it birds and animals will to, the trick is to either cover the plants with a bird net or grow enough to share. new plants varieties like pink lemonade blueberry and yellow gold cherry will trick birds into thinking the fruit needs more time to ripen and might give you a chance to beat them to your harvest.

When birds are hungary they eat any thing. I have figs, apricot blackberry and peach and grape vines. From our experience the only way to safe some fruit for us is use bird nets. Oh the wasps too are driving me nuts/

yellow jackets are bad here in SC along with ants

Your local nursery in Vegas might have some ideas for you. My grapes were eaten by coons or possums. I live on a golf course, and thought birds would be the problem! I'm willing to share a few grapes with some birds, but those big critters eat an entire bunch!

You can prune grape vines to look like trees. You tube has videos.