Birds and squirrels ---and a snake!

SITTING GUARD
A squirrel
co-opts fallen
seeds, scaring the young birds
in their foraging. I'm here to
umpire.
(5.9.'20)

DISCOVERY
Little
wrens can stretch for
suet and they don't raise
their heads as some birds do when they
swallow.
(5.1.'20)

AT LEAST THERE'S A CHOICE
Blackcap
at the dwindling
suet cake tries and tries
to access it; goes to the seed
feeder.
(5.8.'20)

RECOGNITION
I hear
her 'chits' before
I see mama redbird
fly to the branch with the suet
feeder.
(5.6.'20)

AND I WAS SOCK-FOOTED!

Prepping

to sit on swing

and read, I spy a grown

mockingbird chipping at a large-

bore snake,

the first

I've seen since I've

lived here (one month shy of

fourteen years). And then while I stewed,

it crawled

a ways

on the ramp. I

threw a gee-gaw at it,

it retreated to the ground or

under

the ramp.

I ran in for

my tablet for proof, but

by that time, it had disappeared.

Oh, dear!

Now, each

step I take must

be monitored for black

and long and slithering before

I move.

(5. 18. '20)

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