It was a very pretty day. A brown thrasher was too hungry to wait for barkbutter balls and tackled the suet. Downy woodpeckers rushed to take back their feeder. Then the starlings arrived. Bluebirds asserted their rights to the barkbutter balls I put out. Both brown thrashers got excited by this. White throated sparrows did their usual business. A mockingbird got some suet.
I was outdoors briefly to plant a bulb that had outgrown its vase. The wind was cold but I was also underdressed. Three squirrels warily hunted sunflower seeds the birds had dropped. Finally one jumped on another and was promptly cuffed by the third. The guilty one sulked and washed its face. Later there was an attempt to rob the feeder that ended in failure.
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