Birds

While I don’t hate birds, they do kind of creep me out. Especially corvids (crows, blackbirds, and the like) — they are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. They stare at you with those beady little yellow eyes, and it feels like they’re trying to determine the best way to kill you.

As long as I’m at a safe distance from them, I like watching them in my backyard, though. We have a hanging feeder that the squirrels keep figuring out how to get at. We keep trying to outsmart them. I’m not sure who will eventually win. At the feeder we get a mated pair of cardinals (always, one of them eats while the other sits on the fence to keep watch, then they switch), dark-eyed junco sparrows, robins (just in the past week), bluejays, mockingbirds, black-capped chickadees, and doves.