Discussion of Critters

 

 

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Got a message from Mike 

My neighbor Mary mentioned that she was witnessing "wars between the hummers and bees" at her feeders ... and for some reason, what she said stuck in my mind ... probably because it seemed wrong to me to suggest that the bees and hummingbirds started a war.

Your note made me laugh as I am actually just kind of breaking out of a similar bit of cognitive dissonance.

My favorite birds are corvids.  Ravens are at the top of the list, but there aren't that many here so when I see them I consider it a gift (maybe twice a year).  Crows are next, with scrub jays following and steller’s jays coming in last.  The scrub jays are my most frequent visitors.  The pretty steller’s are very obnoxious and I don’t mind them not stopping by.

So I put out peanuts on the lawn for them to eat.  I used to be annoyed when the local squirrels came by and took what I thought of as "corvid food", but in the last month I kinda decided that I should be more open as to which critter ate them.  Doing so let me relax much more and actually enjoy more.  I am even to the point where I am starting to like the squirrels.