Y'know, a blend of the two extremes, done "partridge in a pear tree" style (and as a duet), would be fascinating.

When I lived in the Columbia Gorge, our house was right on the edge of the woods, and the woods (national forest type) went back over a hundred miles. We got to meet a lot of wildlife. We kept chickens for a while, which were a great predator-attraction device. My favorite was the black bear who decided as a cub to make himself a little hibernatin' place in the back yard, in the carcass of a '57 Ford, and then came back every winter for years. Never caused any trouble, but there were just four months or so that the dog would *not* go into the back yard for any reason.

Here on the Oregon Coast, we're a bit more populated and civilized; only critters out of the ordinary are the deer that periodically mosey down from their little refuge around the city water tank to much out on people's gardens. There are maybe 4 generations of deer living up there now.

And of course birds. Wife Sandy has flowers, so we get lots of birds. Except for the robins and great blue herons, I have no idea what most of 'em are. They serve as a kind of Bowflex exercise thing for the cats. The birds don't appear to be bothered, since the cats can't ever catch 'em, and the cats don't appear to be bothered by not being able to catch 'em. (The herons, by the way, are our local oddity. They have a rookery in town, in a stand of tall firs, so everybody's proud and protective of 'em. Herons are huge, and ugly, and sound awful, and you do not want to be in the wrong place when one is flying overhead.)

So... somebody gonna do a song?

Joe

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