Robins are impudent, as I established last year. I have also observed that they are pretty intelligent birds.
The other day I mowed the lawn. It has rained almost every single day since June 1, which means not only that the lawn has grown tall and green, but that I was not able to mow it until the other morning, when the sun had been out long enough to dry the grass before the next storm dumped more water on it. Anyway, as I was mowing I noticed that a robin was sitting in the cut grass looking at me (impudently, but I digress). He stayed a certain distance away, but he was looking at me very hard. When I finished mowing what seemed a thousand acres of grass, I put the mower away and went inside. Almost instantly, the robin was running around the yard, picking for worms. That's when I realized, that bird knew that when humans mow lawns, it brings worms and other bugs closer to the surface, making it easier for smart birds to eat well for the day. I became a tool, or rather an accomplice for a robin in his hunt for calories.
Well, there are worse things to do on a late spring morning!
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