Persistence And Reward
This morning was another typical morning. Wake up, head to the computer shortly after and catch up on the news, email and the Rain. After a bit I looked out the window to where our bird feeder and hummingbird feeder hang, and notice that something that doesn't look like a bird is in the feeder. SQUIRREL!!
It has its back to me, so I quietly open the door to the deck and go outside. Still no movement. Now quietly across the flagstone patio, just a few feet away and no movement. That bushy tail is RIGHT THERE, so reach out and touch it and WHOOSH that squirrel is off the feeder and across 10 yards and up the nearest tree!
I go back inside and get back to work, and a few minutes later this young squirrel is back at it. The feeder itself is too high to reach with a jump from the ground, so the squirrel has to try to scale the center pole. It hops up, grabs, skitters up a few feet and holds on....and then slides back down the pole to the ground. It tries again, a little higher, stops, slides back down again! This goes on for several more attempts and FINALLY the squirrel reaches the top crossbar and hangs on!
From there it jumps to the top of the feeder, but the feeder spins and the squirrel slides off like the kid on the merry-go-round that is spinning faster than they can hold on. Back down to the grass! Squirrel eventually decides that maybe all those seeds on the ground are just fine after all, at least for now! But I'm not going to be surprised if I look out later and see that squirrel back on the feeder ledge, a just reward for being so persistent! (But first it's got to get past the PAM I sprayed on the pole!).
Liz and Bill aka BLiz
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