The vapours
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The vapours

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Just looked out into the backyard and noticed vapour rising from my gazebo-style bird feeder. It's as if it was breathing! Is the seed composting? Is the sunlight heating up the chamber and melting the moisture from the roof? Is it sending smoke signals to the chickadees implying that it's full and open for business? Am I imagining it all? Am I asking too many questions?



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No photo. The tendrils of vapour were too subtle to show up on a still photo. A video might have worked but I was too lazy to try it. Besides, I can't post videos as easily, if at all. I'm not sure why I even mentioned it in a post. It just looks so odd at the time, like there was a small bird hidden behind the feeder and having a smoke. That would be surreal.

Speaking of the near surreal, I saw a video yesterday of a gull standing on the back of another gull that was gliding in flight. It was like wing-walking during the barnstorming days. The passenger gull (as if passenger pigeons weren't enough in this crazy world) must have landed on the other gull while still in flight and then rode it down as if on a surf board. There is no way that a gull could take flight from the ground with a passenger gull on its back. Why would a gull decide to surf the air currents with another gull as a surf board? Was it a dare? Were gulls betting on the prank? Was crazy glue involved? Was one gull the other gull's bitch. So many questions!