Randy caught a bird..
but I made him spit it out. It was just a crow and
in my experience, the only thing that crows are good for is to eat all
the sunflower seeds out of the feeder and sprinkle the rest of the food on the
ground. I'm sure the mourning doves appreciate it, but I don't So, if it means
that there is one less crow in the yard, good riddance.
My standing and yelling at Randy to spit out that
crow reminded me of when I was a kid and the cat caught that rabbit. Not just
any rabbit, either, a baby rabbit. We were all girls, all young and all outside.
I'm sure the screams of "Dad, Dad, the cats got a rabbit, a baby rabbit!" could
be heard for miles. What's a dad to do, faced with a dozen screaming, panicked
little girls? My dad grabbed a bat. Yes, he intended on beating the cat
with a bat so he's spit out the rabbit, the baby rabbit. If you think we
were all panicked before, when we realized that was the plan, people started
hyperventilating. I'm pretty sure at least one of my sisters fainted.
The only thing to do was to get Mom. The voice of
reason in this scenario. "Jim.. you can't beat the cat with a bat!", she told
him. "But the girls, the cat, the rabbit.. the baby rabbit" he said, as he stood, innocently, with his
bat.
Now the cat. The cat wasn't stupid like Randy. He
didn't just sit around waiting to hear the plan. He took off with the baby
rabbit, like a smart cat does. By the time a plan was hatched, he was long gone.
I'm sure his luck value quadrupled that day.. given all those feet but only in a
small way. It was a baby rabbit, after all.
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"just a crow"??? ehehehe... I used to have a freelance client in the field of Urban Ecology (The study of urban versus nature and how to have them coexist peacefully. Yes, I live in the northwest, can ya tell?) and my contact's entire professional life was devoted to crows. He did a thesis for his PhD on crows. Yep. An entire thesis.
Apparently they are highly intelligent, even moreso than your "typical" bird.
I just think they are annoying.
but baby rabbits... awwww. :(