Do you suppose the thingumbs at the Arboretum are a watering system, with misters?
My ex-gf had a finch that *enjoyed* doing a Millenium Falcon impression: diving towards a closing door and going through sideways just as the door closed. It would wait for that moment. It got old and slow and died that way, but in the meantime it was spectacularly good at hitting a moving, closing, very narrow target at full flight speed. Its reflexes were markedly faster than a human's. It would fly up, when I was sitting there reading a book, land on my cheekbone, peck me in the eyeball to get a little bit of water from the corner of my eye where tears build up, and fly off again, all before I could even blink reflexively.
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Date: 2008-12-21 06:19 am (UTC)My ex-gf had a finch that *enjoyed* doing a Millenium Falcon impression: diving towards a closing door and going through sideways just as the door closed. It would wait for that moment. It got old and slow and died that way, but in the meantime it was spectacularly good at hitting a moving, closing, very narrow target at full flight speed. Its reflexes were markedly faster than a human's. It would fly up, when I was sitting there reading a book, land on my cheekbone, peck me in the eyeball to get a little bit of water from the corner of my eye where tears build up, and fly off again, all before I could even blink reflexively.