Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 18, 2017

Maybe a bit slippery, too

It looks as though Woody is feeling up to the challenge. I recommend a running start for Scooter, along with a pattern of evasive maneuvers.

Scooter knows all too well how hard it is to get bird poop out of ones fur, especially Sagamore Sparrow’s.

Scooter scared Sag’s wife Sylvia with his barking and she dropped an egg over the side.

To prepare for this moment Sag has been feasting on the Higgenpooder’s blueberries.

Love that glare Scooter. Or as my wife calls it, the hairy eyeball.

The bird seems to be mocking Scooter.

The bird IS making fun of Scooter.

One of its favorite activities…..

even though Woody… or… um…. Sag(?) isn’t a mockingbird….

Oops….

Name conflict in Comments #2 and #4.

(Well, they’re #2 and #4 at the moment…)

Easy to understand how this happens….

Take a closer look. This is the renowned Ballard County Scissorbeak Sparrow…

Known for its sharp wit, and its legendary cutting sense of humor….

It can make some very pointed remarks.

Scooter himself is no stranger to such a battle…..

being one of the neighborhood champions in canine repartee.

So as he gears up for evasive action, he’s also practicing mentally for the verbal challenge.

Ah, to be…. well, perhaps not a fly on the wall,

but some other small being without our human restraints on understanding the universal language of Earth’s creatures.

This should be good.

Walk on the grass.

Walking behind scooter and his friends is a bigger problem.

Scat around the splats!

Scooter and the birds have a history. Not good history. Remember the bird feeder incident?

I won the auction for the four wheelchairs yesterday.

$61.60 after fees!

I’mgoing to Portland tomorrow to pick them up.

Next up is the squirrel gauntlet……they use their nuts….;-)

This does not bode well for Scooter.

We’ll soon see how Scooter got his name.

Scooter skirts snide sparrow scat, so soon snarky squirrels?

Hah! So the feline felon from the Fenimores’, has fooled all of you! Not so Scooter. He is aware of that conniving feral fink wearing a bird suit. Then it has the audacity to call itself a catbird. “Well”, thinks Scooter, " we’ll soon knock that catbird off of his seat!" .

During nesting season, birds can be quite aggressive. There was a bluejay who tormented my cat Johnny Depp until he was forced to do something about it. All the neighborhood jays noisily attended the funeral.