That's definitely not a BT.  Wrong leaf shape for one (all three dominant leaves I see).  Fruit not quite right either.

JD, welcome home from vacation. Come by and help me eat some figs.

The bottom 3 pictures are from the fig facing the garage. The top two are from the "back 40". 

They have different parentage.

Hi JD, sorry for the continued confusion. The  4th, 5th, 6th and 7th images from figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5379644 are from the NJ Red (spicy complex unique flavor).The Petit Negri figs (1st and 2nd pictures from this post) are from the tree that I hung the snakes from (green garden hose with eyes painted on, that fooled neither the birds nor your kids).

BTW, what can we do about those birds? I hardly get to taste my black figs!</Electric Scarecrow Owl:?Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler? Too expensive and fraught with failure IMO.

Thanks for the suggestions, JD.

Unfortunately, I've had some bad experiences with bird netting. Last year, I draped some over a small fig tree that had never fruited, to be sure to at least get a taste. One day, I found two black snakes caught in the netting. I tried to release them but it was too late. When they get caught in one of the loops, they try to escape by twirling  and turning desperately but only end up making the noose tighter until it cuts through their skin. An hour in the hot sun and they are cooked. It was a sad experience knowing that I had accidentally eliminated two beneficial creatures from my garden.

This spring the same thing happened with 3 small black snakes that had gotten into my shed. They became entangled in some bird netting that I hadn't bothered putting back in the package. Since then I got rid of the rest of the netting I'd bought..

Perhaps the solution is to plant as many trees as possible saturating the environment with figs. There has to be a breaking point at which time the bird will say, "Figs for supper, AGAIN!"

Ken, I am sure that the system you described would work. Unfortunately, I am planning on an entire orchard of fig trees over a two acre field and that would indeed be too labor intensive and cost prohibitive. Maybe, I could just learn to enjoy looking at the foliage and the unripened fruit. Who needs to taste them anyway? {{:

Rafed, you are welcome to drop by my place for a visit. Unfortunately, those pictures were from early July and I am currently in between ripe figs. There should be another "flush" in the fall, hopefully.

Frank