[Blade]

While watching the wild critters feed this morning I saw a squirrel come down the tree, cross over the edges of a resin doghouse, two steps to cross a 5 gallon bucket, then to the ground.

As he got to the ground he jumped straight up about a foot high, arching his back in the air as if in pain. I watched him do this probably 8 times very quickly. There are a few briars over there so I thought maybe each time he landed he was landing on a briar. I kept watching and realized he was playing with a bird. A tiny little bird.

I kept watching for a bit, jumping squirrel, flittering bird, back and forth back and forth. Finally 2 more squirrels came racing down the tree and game over. They were twitterpated, one chasing the other then about face and the chaser became the chased.