Perfect Seed, originally uploaded by ifringe.
From a squirrel’s point of view, birds, especially birds around a bird feeder, are generous and rain food from the sky. This Abert Squirrel is no exception and today it found a most wonderful harvest under our bird feeder.
It’s the Blue Jays, I think. I am pretty sure they have signed a pact with the squirrels where the Jays scatter all of the food out of the feeder to the ground below, in return for whatever it is that squirrels can do for Jays. In any event, the Jays took care of the “empty the feeder on the ground” bit and this squirrel enjoyed their hard work.
This squirrel saw me, but decided to pay no heed whatsoever. Casually, carefully and selectively it picked through the bountiful seeds on the ground, finding exactly the one that suited it, then it turned around and decided to show me the perfect seed.
But the joke was on the squirrel, you see. For there I was, camera in hand, patiently waiting for him to turn around. “Click” went the camera. “Gone” went the squirrel. And both of us couldn’t have been happier.
The Perfect Seed, indeed.