pestilence update
Now that House Finches are coming to my bird feeder, I find the enormous, capybara-like squirrel who comes and sits in the middle of the seed to feed less cute. Especially when I can hear the finches yelling at him to get out.
Today I went out and, instead of merely shooing him away, I snuck up on him, then waved my arms and made a big noise. Well, he exploded out of the feeder, then charged halfway up a tree. But then he stopped, turned and started barking at me. It sounded like an apoplectic Donald Duck. It so amused me that I stood there for a good ten minutes trying to replicate the sound myself, and the two of us stood in my yard, carrying on what must have been an obscene conversation in Squirrel.
My mother has an anti-squirrel feeder; the bird perch is calibrated such that a squirrel weighs too much, and it tilts down so that the food orifice closes… I am afraid I don’t know where she got it.
Was it a brown or black squirrel?
Yeah, we’ve got one of those feeders. The squirrels sit on the roof of the feeder and hang down to get the seed. They’re crafty, those squirrels are.
They are…
You’re in NYC, right? I was wondering, because in Chicago, they have brown/grey squirrels, and in Toronto, (where I’m from), they have Black squirrels. What do they have where you are?
Well, I’m in the LA area now. I would call this squirrel brown.
Gotcha.
I know that the grey squirrels here are MEAN bastards, but the black ones in Toronto were very gentile. I wonder if their behavior is due to genetic drift…
Anyway, you certainly are watching a lot of movies these days – I’m very jealous!
If the black ones are gentile, then the grey ones are Jews?
I certainly am watching a lot of movies these days. I’m in an “input” cycle, researching for a project. Soon I will be on an “output” cycle, and won’t have time to do anything.
Damnation, I meant “genteel”. My brain pulled a dyslexic switch.
So, I’m assuming the work is heist-related?
It’s a heist movie about squirrels who plan the perfect crime, to steal a bird’s seed.
Hey wait, that’s good.
It is… For a few years from now. There’s been a glut of animal-CGI movies in the past year, (Madagascar, The Wild, Ice Age 2, Valiant, Over the Hedge…), but, really, it can’t fail to be a blockbuster 2 years from now!