Defiance in Nature
Defiance in Nature
In tuned to nature as I am, I have gone thru life enjoying the bounties that nature has to offer. Today was no different. As I was walking into work today, I noticed that there was a lot of critter activity going on. The black bellied ducks that hang around were whistling even the rabbits were out in the parking lot chasing each other. As I approached the side of the first building I pass by every day, I noticed some movement along the edge of it. The building has a grove at the base which is about six” deep and nine” tall. Running along side of me in the grove was a field rat. He was scurrying along and when I stopped, he stopped and when I started back up he would. This seemed odd but I really did not give it a lot of thought at the time. As I neared the end of the building, the grove stopped. Well, I said goodbye rat and started to go into the door of my building a few feet away. When suddenly something caught my eye, and I turned around and looked back at the rat. There to my surprise was a large crow standing by the grove. Well, he just pecked under it twice, and then he reached under a third time and out popped the rat in his bill. Well, that crow just scored big, because it was a big rat. He then flew up about seven feet into the air and dropped the rat. The poor bugger landed on his back with his feet up in the air and little beady eyes closed. I watched lay there a second, then his eyes opened then closed again. A few seconds later the crow landed by him. The crow turned his head sideways looking at the rat and then he reached down to grab him again. To my surprise the rat jumped up and grabbed the crow by the neck with his teeth. Well let me tell you that crow’s eyes were big as saucers as he scrambled with that rat. The crow managed to throw the rat off and took off flying away as fast as he could squawking the whole time. The rat sat there a minute looked around, then put his little chest out and walked off. As I stand here now, I would not have believed it if I had not seen it myself and luckily another person behind me also saw it. I swear that rat played possum on that ol crow. Like I said at the start, Nature offers up many bounties including entertainment.
This is a 100% true story and happened exactly as told.