You and me both. I only have 2 stone fruit total from my second year trees and I am watching them like a hawk entirely paranoid. I’m pretty sure a raccoon will laugh at the individual netting. I added soap and fresh pulled garlic bags around them as well yesterday! I think they just need a few more days.
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Good opportunity to see what works and what doesn’t with little to lose! Some lost is devastating but that’s how I justify it. 
Especially if you have yet to try any!
I would recommend getting some of the un-weaved square grid netting, the weaved stuff doesn’t catch claws. The physical barrier alone they will just laugh at.
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We are in the same boat with respect to stone fruit. My stone fruit (cherry, plum, peach, and nectarine) bare root trees I planted in March of 2025 did not produce anything last year, but my hopes were up due to all the blossoms.
I experienced the same thing this year, but similar level of fruit set as you have experienced. I wonder if it was the late frost?
I protected my one Stardust cherry like it was in Fort Knox, but haven’t really done much more than a bag to protect my sole peach and two nectarines. I didn’t notice them during my first round of bagging, so they have bug damage.
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I’m just so worried about catching birds. We killed two birds with that stuff a few years ago. It was ugly.
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Ramped up with chicken wire. I really want to try these. Every single apricot is gone from that tree and the ground. I think there were ocer 1000 easy. This has been a good observational lesson!! Oddly, the loaded neighbor peach tree that is half a block up from me has not be touched yet.
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Arctic Star is very tasty, and your fruit looks high quality, I hope they make it to ripeness and you enjoy them.
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Kind of reminds me of my parents who after I get a fruit, they usually get one to try themselves maybe a year or so later… their trees are loaded with not much work, mine barely bloom.
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