Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Exactly the kind of bs that happens to me, happens to a squirrel

Yesterday on his bike ride Crumby espied a squirrel.  The particular squirrel we are now discussing carried a cluster of green pecans. So along goes the squirrel only it can't see where it's headed due to all the green pecans blocking its vision.   Pretty soon its fore paws tangle with a stick tripping up squirrel.  Course the stick moves doing a stick snake imitation.  Thoroughly spooked, squirrel jumps back, losing its grip on the green pecan cluster which breaks apart into a cluster of three and a solitary.  Squirrel don't know what to do. Three or one!  Three or one! Yet by then, Crumby is bearing down on squirrel.  So squirrel grabs the one and heads up the nearest tree.

This morning a gray fox was/is almost on the back step.  Gray fox right after we got a brief glimpse of the lunar eclipse, before clouds rolled in.

The rain of weeks past jump started the growing season.  Yet the insects lag.  For example, honeybees outnumber native Hymenopterans like 100-1.   Yes.  Only the most common are apparent.  Which species survive environmental perturbations best.  Easy that, the most common species.

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