Horrible things that live in my yard, Part 58

[phosfate]

1. Caterpillars that look like tiny steel-belt radial tires. Lots of them.

2. Large but flightless baby robin. If robins ever stage Of Mice and Men, this one will play Lenny. Its mother is convinced that I mean it harm, and keeps faking injury in order to distract me from her tasty, tasty child. She's like Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black: "Eat me! EAT ME!" I have explained repeatedly that I don't want to eat her, or her lummoxy offspring. When I go inside, she switches her attention to the blue jay, who only wants to sit on a bit of fence and probably wonders what exactly he did to offend.

3. Rabbits. They are not in fact horrible, but they are everywhere.

Comments

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Jays are actually kinda mean. She was undoubtedly afraid it was gonna kill her baby, and it might try, as a blue jay will raid other birds' nests and eat young birds and eggs.