Not too subtle.  The deer reach up and pull down the branches of the apple tree to eat the leaves.  If they knock off an apple, they eat that too, but we think they are really after the leaves.  

 

Just about every tree in our neighborhood is pruned (read: browsed) up to about 5 feet.  

 

Oh well, they can't get the ones at the top.  There are enough for us all.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!