Pastpossum - Decidedly Ambivalent

In the backyard a couple of days ago.

A bedraggled blue jay and a pair of grackles posing. Hot day, heavy traffic at the pool, including bees.

Good fences

Yesterday there was another infinitely depressing incident with a baby bird, a snake, and Marley the cat, but this time with cardinals instead of blue jays. This time the snake was much more clearly the prime mover in it all so maybe the cat will at least be able to show up in the yard without being attacked by cardinals.

Today when I got up and got the dogs out to pee, the male cardinal was staying very close to one spot in a tree over the yard (small yard, many trees) and I went to see if there was anything there I needed to keep the dogs and cat away from. Instead of a baby bird, I found an old muddy ziploc baggie half hidden in the (unauthorized) vinca. It had to have been thrown over the back fence from next door at some point but I have no idea when. It had exactly what you'd expect inside, as best I could tell. I took it and threw it in the trash, because what the hell else is there to do with that? It's pretty obvious where it has to have come from but I can't go knock on the door next door and ask if they lost anything over here.

Disgruntled grackle. Disgrackled?

Driving is the most dangerous activity people undertake regularly

Of course ignoring recreational knife fights