Battle of the Species was posted here
Everything was fine and dandy when the squirrels were eating the bird seed... but then we discovered BEATRIX POTTER GONE WILD! You all know the stories of Squirrel Nutkin, Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny... I think there are about 20 or more of the Potter childhood classics that our family and many others love. Well one night not so long after that post about Marin and the Squirrels fighting about the bird feeder, we were eating dinner one night, our little friend Ella was joining us and we were all looking out the window watching the squirrels eat the seeds out of the bird feeder. At some point in the meal I noticed a little gray "squirrel" without a tail running around out there. I got up and looked a bit closer to the window and said, "Are those RATS EATING THE SEED ON THE GROUND!!!!!!" Everyone got up and looked out the window, and sure enough in broad daylight we had: 2 Cardinals, a brown wren, some other little light brown bird, 4 or 5 squirrels, and THREE RATS eating the seeds on the ground that the squirrels had knocked out of the feeder...
We no longer have a bird feeder. We no longer have rats.
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- toddandholli
- Todd and Holli are parents, human travelers, community citizens who are committed to the flourishing of our family, the Creation, our church community, our town and to purposeful living and thoughtful parenting of our little Irish pixies. Holli has been attending births and providing families with postpartum care for the past six years. If you are interested in finding birth resources please feel free to contact her. Todd works in higher education, thinking about how academia can contribute more to the common good.