Saturday, April 29, 2017

Mobbed

Greetings fellow birdie watchers. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your vigilant doggie reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel.


Today alias Twinkletoes of the Evil Squirrel Cartel, was snarfing birdie seeds under the feeder. His buddy Fatty White-ears was out there too! I went out and chased them both up the silver maple tree. End of story? Nope.


The Great Grackle Flying PTA (Poop Tossers Association) started dive bombing them! Those rotten squirrels couldn't go down the tree because I'd chase them back up again. They couldn't go up the tree, because the grackles would peck them. They kept running around and around in the branches! You should have heard the racket! The grackles were shouting, chuk chuk chuk chuk screeeeeee churk churk taweeeeet, and the squirrels were cursing, probably HBO words that I can't repeat here. 


One of the squirrels managed to jump into the arbor vitae hedge, and make his way to the tall blue spruce in the neighbor's yard. Big mistake! That's where the big grackle boss Effluvium Scatterstool and his wife have a nest. Now the word was out, and dozens more grackles began arriving from all over the neighborhood to join the fight!  I wish we could have gotten pictures of this riot! The spruce branches were soon filled with squawking grackles, and the squirrel could hardly move anywhere! Meanwhile, the other squirrel made a run for it, with the grackles dive bombing him all the way across the green belt! That'll teach those squirrels not to steal birdie seeds!


Well, you know what they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I'm thinking that maybe I don't dislike those grackles as much anymore. 


PS. Don't feel bad for the squirrels. They've been known to eat bird eggs and baby birdies too. This kind of mobbing behavior by the grackles occurs whenever they see another animal get near their nests. They dive bomb me too if I get too close.

17 comments:

  1. Hahahaha... wish da grackles round here would attack our skwirrels!! Dey is way too sassy!!!

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  2. Ha! bet that was quite the racket and kinda fun to watch
    hugs
    Mr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel

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  3. BOL!!! Good work dude! Yes, I thinks you and those burdies needs to form an alliance to keeps those frickin' tree rats at bay! I almost gots one today....frickin' fluffy tail
    Kisses,
    Ruby ♥

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  4. Woof, Chester, what a story! I was on the edge of my bed!!

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  5. Chester, it's pawbably best to just stay away from both the tree rats and the burds.
    Yur Furend
    Louis Dog Armstrong

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  6. I feel a bit sorry for those poor squirrels.

    Mara from Norway

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  7. Great story!! I kept asking Mom what happened next!! I'm a big squirrel chaser here myself. They're pesky critters that's for sure!

    Molly and my Mom @The Fast and The Furriest

    http://thefastandthefurriestat.weebly.com/

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  8. You are doing a GREAT job in your back yard, Chester! Stoopid squirrels!

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  9. MOLMOL Chester well done you have the squirrels running in circles...
    Hugs madi your bfff

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  10. Congratulations Chester, you and the grackles sure gave the squirrels a run for their money! Maybe the squirrels will learn a lesson and leave the bird seed for the birds.

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  11. There is always a soap opera going on in your yard Chester.

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  12. That was a very exciting story. We have made friends with the grackles. I think if you talked to them you would find out they aren't so bad. Except for the swooping and poop bombing.

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  13. I chase tree rats all the time. I find them most irritating! You have a lot of activity going on in your yard! You are a busy boy!

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  14. Oh that PTA organization cracked us up!

    Your Pals,

    Murphy & Stanley

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  15. That is way more entertainment that I have at my feeders...Now I think I might have helped in the noise dept by barking my fool head off. What fun!!

    There was an indigo bunting at our feeders today.Not rare, but an uncommon visitor around here. Dark iridescent blue. So pretty. I think it was scouting for a good place to bring his wife:)

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  16. Blue jays are bad about dive bombing too. Pierre is strutting wround the house after catching two squirrels this week. I don't know how he did it but he has been trying for four years to no avail. He brought the first one in the hose to show us. (Thanks a lot) I feel bad for them but they taunt him so bad!

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