Last spring, Arthur, Robinson, and I set up a homemade bird feeder. As it turns out, Arthur loves watching the many birds that come to eat there. We have a gang of Common Redpolls that fight with the gang of Chickadees over the loose seed (it's like West Side Story out there) and a lone Boreal Chickadee that eats at the suet cake. The other day, we even saw a woodpecker at the suet cake.
There's one Redpoll in particular, however, that sits in the bird feeder and hogs all the seed. He's the largest Redpoll that comes to the feeder and even fights off the Chickadees and some of the other Redpolls that come to feed there. Arthur and I have named him Jabba, after the notorious Hutt from Return of the Jedi. I've even tried to teach Arthur how to laugh like Jabba, but with little success.
I guess it's rather telling that he already knows how to breathe like Darth Vader.
Blessed be.
There's one Redpoll in particular, however, that sits in the bird feeder and hogs all the seed. He's the largest Redpoll that comes to the feeder and even fights off the Chickadees and some of the other Redpolls that come to feed there. Arthur and I have named him Jabba, after the notorious Hutt from Return of the Jedi. I've even tried to teach Arthur how to laugh like Jabba, but with little success.
I guess it's rather telling that he already knows how to breathe like Darth Vader.
Blessed be.
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