We saw the most amazing thing this morning out on our back porch. A Blue Jay landed on a planter that hangs on the porch railing with a piece of hornets’ nest in his mouth, set it down and began eating its contents.
Then it flew back over to the roof and came back with another piece of hornets’ nest.
Eventually, it had to leave because a very angry hornet came along.
I was talking about how cool nature is, after. Then Bob remarked that nature is really brutal and pointed out that I only thought it was cool because I like birds and I hate hornets.
I guess I wouldn’t have thought it was cool if a giant hornet flew over with a piece of bird nest and started eating the baby birds.
Hmm. I suppose whether something is good or bad really depends on your perspective.
We got to watch a blue jay “hawking” in our front yard the other day. He was devouring the butterflies from my butterfly garden. I considered frightening him off, but I think it was the same one we rescued after it hit our front window (near the butterfly garden). So we just watched.